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The Political Uses of Spiritual Warfare among President Trump’s Faith Advisors (opens the original)
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In the fifth episode of our series on “Spiritual Warfare,” we speak with J. Derrick Lemons, Professor and Department Head of Religion at the University of Georgia, and director of the Center for Theologically Engaged Anthropology. Dr. Lemons discussed how Trump’s Faith Advisory Team interpreted the 2020 election through a cosmology in which visible political events reflected an unseen struggle between divine purposes and demonic opposition. Spiritual Warfare became a way to authorize power, name
Demons, Podcasts, and Politics (opens the original)
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In the fourth episode of our series on Spiritual Warfare, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Michael E. Heyes, a leading specialist on the “demonic” at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. Dr. Heyes’ new book, Devils of Democracy: America's Love Affair with Political Demons from the Revolution to Today, will be published on September 15. Check out this episode if you’re interested in how demons and politics sometimes intertwine!<a class
Spiritual Warfare in Contemporary Central American Evangelical Politics (opens the original)
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Listen to our third discussion on Spiritual Warfare with Gustavo Fuchs from the University of Texas in Austin. In this episode, Gustavo explains how, starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, evangelical media in Costa Rica and Guatemala served as conduits for broadening the understanding and adoption of Spiritual Warfare among evangelicals and political actors.Leave a comment<sp
Armed with Prayer: Mobilizing the NAR’s Fifty-State Prayer Network (opens the original)
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Watch this discussion with Karrie G. Hogewood as part of our new series on Spiritual Warfare, which examines ritual transmission, framing, and violence permission in contemporary spiritual warfare.Leave a commentSubscribe now<a class="button primary" href="https://andregagne.substack.com/p/armed-with-prayer-mobilizing-the-c9e?utm_so
Article: Soccer and Faith (opens the original)
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I was asked to write a short article for The Conversation Canada about Brazil’s poor performance at the World Cup and how some fans have been blaming the evangelical faith of many of the team’s players for the defeat. <img alt="" class="sizing-n
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