American Possessions

Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20032961
AutoresSean Mccloud (autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Páginas200
Fecha de publicación2015-04-23
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAmerican Possessions (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190205355.001.0001
OpenAlexW4248128091
Open LibraryOL28558935M
ISBN9780190205355
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

This book examines contemporary American religious culture through the themes of a "consuming convert's republic," "the haunted present," and "the therapeutic." The work argues that US religious culture in the twenty-first century can be characterized as immersed in and constitutive of an era of possessions–of both consumer goods and spirit entities such as ghosts and demons–and that these "possessions" are thoroughly saturated with the reverberations of therapeutic discourse. Third Wave evangelicalism and its practice of spiritual warfare provide a case study through which these three tropes converge. The book provides a description and analysis of religion in the contemporary United States. Second, it offers an extended examination of Third Wave evangelicalism, a small but influential movement in both the United States and in Christian mission fields around the world. Third, it maps some of the multiple and often conflicting connections among contemporary American religious forms, consumer capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization

Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Consumerism · Culture of the United States · Globalization · Literature · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · 11.55 Protestantism · Besessenheit · Dämon · Demoniac possession · Demonic possession · Exorcisme · Exorzismus · Geistliche Kriegführung · Spiritual warfare