American Possessions

Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States

Bibliographic Data

ID20032961
AuthorsSean Mccloud (corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages200
Publication date2015-04-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAmerican Possessions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190205355.001.0001
OpenAlexW4248128091
Open LibraryOL28558935M
ISBN9780190205355
LanguageEN
Citations received20

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