The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken The New Politics of Religion in the United States

by Robbins, Jeffrey W.; Magee, Neal; Caputo, John D.; Zizek, Slavoj

• ISBN13: 9780826429698
• ISBN10: 0826429696
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-11
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book is a collection of articles by a group of young scholars that offer an introductory-level analysis on the relationships between contemporary politics, religion, and American culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction  "A Taste for Theory" - John D. Caputo1. "Radical Religion and American Democracy" - Jeffrey W. Robbins2. "Prophetic Evangelicalism: Towards a Politics of Hope" - Peter Goodwin Heltzel3. "A Christian Politics of Vulnerability" - Anna Mercedes4. "Truthiness, Family Values and Conservative Consumerism" - Adam S. Miller5. ""The Cultural Logic of Evangelical Christianity" - Christopher Haley and Creston Davis6. "Jeb Stuart's Revenge: The Civil War, the Religious Right, and American Fascism" - Clayton Crockett7. "In What Sense is the United States a Theocracy?" - Ben Stahlberg8. "Christianity, Capitalism, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republic" - Andrew Saldino9. "Sovereignty and State-Form" - Rocco Gangle10. "The Politics of Immanence" - J. Heath Atchley11. "'An Army of One?' Subject, Signifier, and the Symbolic" - Melissa Conroy12. "Freedom Ain't Free: Politics and Religion at the Heart of a Muddled Concept" - Mary-Jane Rubenstein13. "Incongruent Beliefs and the Vitality of Fantasy: The New Politics of Religion" - Neal MageePostface    "Better Dead than Red - Again!" - Slavoj Žižek