Unipolar Dispensations: Exceptionalism, Empire, and the End of One America

Public and political discourse around the 2016 US Presidential election constructed it as a time of crisis for America. Yet, while over 80% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, religion's role in this crisis has been marginalized. Analyzing Trump's support among premillennial disp...

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主要作者: O'Donnell, S. Jonathon (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2019
In: Political theology
Year: 2019, 卷: 20, 發布: 1, Pages: 66-84
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / 福音派運動 / 時代論 / American Exceptionalism / Trump, Donald 1946- / Politische Unterstützung
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
Further subjects:B unipolarity
B 帝政风格
B Dispensationalism
B Soteriology
B Trumpism
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總結:Public and political discourse around the 2016 US Presidential election constructed it as a time of crisis for America. Yet, while over 80% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, religion's role in this crisis has been marginalized. Analyzing Trump's support among premillennial dispensationalists, this article explores connections between dispensationalist discourses of divine providence and constructions of Trump's election as a "turning point" for America. Charting links between conflicts over domestic cultural homogeneity and attempted impositions of US power over global "deviants" (terrorists, rogue states), it argues that the crisis of American identity figured by Trump's election is tied to religious and secularized soteriologies emerging from notions of American exceptionalism and empire inaugurated by the end of the Cold War.
ISSN:1743-1719
Contains:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1484986