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Jason C. Bivins

Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion, a study of the intersections of jazz and American religions, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015 and has received attention from NPR, the Washington Times, Downbeat, All About Jazz, and all the usual academic suspects. In addition, he is the author of Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

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Religion Dispatches
The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died. The extraordinarily influential evangelical remains best known for his co-authorship of the Left Behind novels, ubiquitous…
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Religion Dispatches
“Religious enthusiasm” or the American apocalyptic can be read as modes of the disaffection of the citizen in a time of political delegitimation. We often see this “religion” taking shape most clearly when we focus all the way down, to the odd hybrid of melancholy and triumphalism in these assertions about Damascus.
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Religion Dispatches
Religious horror, like Chick comics, Hell Houses, and the Left Behind books, moved from the margins in the 1960s to the center by the early 2000s with an assist from a strong anti-pluralism, anti-liberalism, and antipathy to governmental reform.
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