Voting in the Kingdom

Bibliographic Data

ID20199677
AuthorsDamon T Berry (St. Lawrence University, corresponding author), Damon Berry
Year2020
Volume23
Issue4
Pages69-93
Publication date2020-04-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-6690 • E-ISSN: 1541-8480
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/nr.2020.23.4.69
OpenAlexW3024387400
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Evangelical Christian support for Donald Trump quickly became a focus for journalistic and scholarly efforts to understand the results of the 2016 presidential election. Most studies have focused on Trump’s position on social issues or voters’ racialized nostalgia for an idealized American past. In this article, however, I draw attention to motives not analyzed by these studies. Among the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation, a new charismatically inclined Christian movement, alleged prophecies explaining that God had chosen Trump to become president compelled their support for his candidacy, presidency, and attempt at reelection in 2020. I argue that Trump’s support among what I call prophecy voters resulted from their obedience to these prophecies and the accompanying mandate to combat alleged demonic conspiracies aligned against President Trump that seek to prevent the eventual establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth

Candidacy · Kingdom · Mandate · Obedience · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · Voting · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Religion and Society Interactions

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