Heirs through Fear
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20200096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darryl V Caterine (Le Moyne College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-57 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-6690 • E-ISSN: 1541-8480 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/nr.2014.18.1.37 |
| OpenAlex | W2310407307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Beginning with nineteenth-century Indian curse rhetoric as a national jeremiad, and continuing into the twentieth century through Puritan-derived landscapes in fiction by Howard Philips Lovecraft and Jay Anson, Indian curses and accursed lands stand apart from other paranormal beliefs in the explicit voice they give to Euro-American anxieties over cultural authority. By imagining themselves as living in Indian terrains, accursed though they are, white Americans lay claim to the land, articulating an indigenized myth of national origin. Since the 1970s, neo-charismatic Protestants have taken a keen interest in Lovecraft-inspired religions and Indian curse lore, engaging in various deliverance ministries to exorcise individuals and landscapes, and to symbolically claim the nation for themselves
Art · Charisma · Curse · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |