Passing Orders Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare.
O'Donnell, S. Jonathon.
Passing Orders Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare. [electronic resource] : - New York : Fordham University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (170 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Paradise Has Walls -- 1. Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity -- 2. Jezebel Assemblages: Witchcraft, Queerness, Transnationality -- 3. The Islamic Antichrist: An Eschatology of Blowback -- 4. Leviathan's Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order -- Conclusion: Paradise Refused -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical "spiritual warfare" demonologies in contemporary America. Situating spiritual warfare as part of broader frameworks of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire management, author S. Jonathon O'Donnell exposes the theological foundations of the systems of queer- and transphobia, anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current U.S. political order.O'Donnell argues that demonologies are not only tools of dehumanization but also ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies-models of the "right ordering" of space, time, and bodies that stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Alternative orders are demonized as passing, framed as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. Yet these orders refuse to simply pass on, instead giving strength to deviant desires that challenge the legitimacy of sovereign violence. Critically examining this challenge in the demonologies of three figures-Jezebel, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan-Passing Orders re-imagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.
In English.
0823289699 9780823289691 9780823289707 0823289702
10.1515/9780823289707 doi
Spiritual warfare--United States.
Demonology--United States.
White supremacy movements--United States.
Combat spirituel--�Etats-Unis.
D�emonologie--�Etats-Unis.
RELIGION / Theology.
Demonology
Spiritual warfare
White supremacy movements
United States
Electronic books.
BL65.N3
322.4/40973
Passing Orders Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare. [electronic resource] : - New York : Fordham University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (170 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Paradise Has Walls -- 1. Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity -- 2. Jezebel Assemblages: Witchcraft, Queerness, Transnationality -- 3. The Islamic Antichrist: An Eschatology of Blowback -- 4. Leviathan's Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order -- Conclusion: Paradise Refused -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical "spiritual warfare" demonologies in contemporary America. Situating spiritual warfare as part of broader frameworks of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire management, author S. Jonathon O'Donnell exposes the theological foundations of the systems of queer- and transphobia, anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current U.S. political order.O'Donnell argues that demonologies are not only tools of dehumanization but also ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies-models of the "right ordering" of space, time, and bodies that stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Alternative orders are demonized as passing, framed as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. Yet these orders refuse to simply pass on, instead giving strength to deviant desires that challenge the legitimacy of sovereign violence. Critically examining this challenge in the demonologies of three figures-Jezebel, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan-Passing Orders re-imagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.
In English.
0823289699 9780823289691 9780823289707 0823289702
10.1515/9780823289707 doi
Spiritual warfare--United States.
Demonology--United States.
White supremacy movements--United States.
Combat spirituel--�Etats-Unis.
D�emonologie--�Etats-Unis.
RELIGION / Theology.
Demonology
Spiritual warfare
White supremacy movements
United States
Electronic books.
BL65.N3
322.4/40973