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Fox, Phyllis
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Spiritual Warfare and Right-Wing Authoritarianism

Implicit Religion, 2022
This article focuses on contemporary spiritual warfare discourse and on the apparent affinity to right-wing authoritarianism of Christians related to it. Drawing on material from the Philippines, I investigate the role of scholarship in fostering said affinity by reading Christians, who seem to be connected to the spiritual warfare discourse, through ...
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Spiritual Warfare and the Apocalypse

2021
The framing of political violence in the Trump era has included the use of religious themes to legitimate a coalition uniting segments of the Christian right with non-Christian far-right groups like American Nazis, QAnon followers, and the Proud Boys. This chapter traces the formation of the concepts of spiritual warfare and apocalyptic violence among ...
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‘Spiritual Warfare’: A Dead Metaphor?

Journal of Pentecostal Theology, 2012
The term ‘spiritual warfare’, referring to the Christian’s battle with evil spirits, was popularized by the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement and is the predominant language used in contemporary Christianity to describe encounters with evil spirits. This paper reviews the prevalence of military metaphors in popular and scholarly writings, and examines ...
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Spiritual Warfare and Territorial Spirits

Religious Studies and Theology, 1999
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Spiritual Warfare in Machiavelli's Prince

Perspectives on Political Science, 2017
ABSTRACTMachiavelli uses metaphors to convey meaning beyond the surface of his text. Access to his metaphors often begins via his “mistakes,” such as his calling (in chapter 12 of the Prince) Philip II of Macedon a “mercenary,” when in fact Philip was no such thing.
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Spiritual warfare

Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 60 Nr.
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“Spiritual Warfare”: Cultural Fundamentalism and the Equal Rights Amendment

Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 1993
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution was to have been the next prize for women after winning the vote in 1920. This agenda—first set in 1923—was not accepted by many women or most members of the U.S. Congress until 1972. During the long generation that separated the conception and birth of the ERA, there came also the gestation of ...
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Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity

2020
This chapter is a detailed introduction both to “spiritual warfare” discourses in contemporary America and to the concept of “orthotaxy.” It unpacks how spiritual warriors construct a vision of order through a temporalizing and territorializing imaginary based on conflicting hegemonic ideologies that are figured as either divine (legitimate) or demonic
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Modern Warfare and the Spiritual Disconnection from Land

Peace Review, 2008
‘Thai Pongal’ in January, a memorable holiday of my childhood in Sri Lanka, celebrates the sun for the successful paddy harvest.
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