Passing orders : demonology and sovereignty in American spiritual warfare / S. Johnathon O'Donnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Donnell, S. Jonathon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual warfare--United States.

Spiritual warfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Fordham University Press

New York, New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical “spiritual warfare” demonologies in contemporary America. Situating spiritual warfare as part of broader frameworks of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire management, author S. Jonathon O’Donnell exposes the theological foundations of the systems of queer- and transphobia, anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current U.S. political order.O’Donnell argues that demonologies are not only tools of dehumanization but also ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies—models of the “right ordering” of space, time, and bodies that stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Alternative orders are demonized as passing, framed as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. Yet these orders refuse to simply pass on, instead giving strength to deviant desires that challenge the legitimacy of sovereign violence. Critically examining this challenge in the demonologies of three figures—Jezebel, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan—Passing Orders re-imagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.

Contents:

Cover

PASSING ORDERS

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

Introduction: Paradise Has Walls

1 Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity

2 Jezebel Assemblages: Witchcraft, Queerness, Transnationality

3 The Islamic Antichrist: An Eschatology of Blowback

4 Leviathan's Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order

Conclusion: Paradise Refused

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-8969-9

OCLC:

1224364478