Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious

American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. The religious right foretells an end of time battle between good and evil, but their voices are only the most obvious of several strains of apocalyptic thought. Immigration reformers, financial elites, and environmentalists all present doomsday scenarios. This book examines their rhetoric, narratives, and policy agendas as well as mainstream media treatment. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, the book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living in an effort to defuse what it takes to be a divisive politics that paradoxically increases the very risks it highlights.

John Buell is a newspaper and magazine columnist and an associate faculty member at Cochise College. He taught for ten years at College of the Atlantic and is the author of five previous books, including The End of Homework (co-authored with Etta Kralovec).

Preface: A Hair Trigger Nation? * Introduction: Listening to Talk Radio * Evil and Identity * Katrina and the Color of Good and Evil * From the Model T to the Hummer: The Economics and Aesthetics of the American Automobile * The Immigrants are Coming! The Immigrants are Coming! * Capitalism’s Bumpy Ride: Where to from Here? * National Security and Apocalypse * Conclusion: Conclusion: Addressing a World of Rhizomatic Crises

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Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age

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