ABSTRACT

Over the last quarter-century, evangelicalism has become an important social and political force in modern America. Here, new voices in the field are brought together with leading scholars such as William E. Connolly, Michael Barkun, Simon Dalby, and Paul Boyer to produce a timely examination of the spatial dimensions of the movement, offering useful and compelling insights on the intersection between politics and religion. This comprehensive study discusses evangelicalism in its different forms, from the moderates to the would-be theocrats who, in anticipation of the Rapture, seek to impose their interpretations of the Bible upon American foreign policy. The result is a unique appraisal of the movement and its geopolitical visions, and the wider impact of these on America and the world at large.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Mapping the End Times

part |71 pages

Contesting the American Holy Land

chapter |24 pages

Contests over Latter-day Space

Mormonism's Role within Evangelical Geopolitics as seen through Last-days Novels

chapter |24 pages

Obama, Son of Perdition?

Narrative Rationality and the Role of the 44th President of the United States in the End-of-Days

part |57 pages

American Evangelical Exceptionalism

chapter |20 pages

Apocalyptic Exceptionalism

Rosenberg, Clancy and the Prophecy of Americanism

chapter |22 pages

Imagining Apocalyptic Geopolitics

American Evangelical Citationality of Evil Others

part |93 pages

Missionary Geopolitics

chapter |26 pages

Reaching the Unreached in the 10/40 Window

The Missionary Geoscience of Race, Difference and Distance

chapter |24 pages

Between Armageddon and Hope

Dispensational Premillennialism and Evangelical Missions in the Middle East

chapter |16 pages

Afterword

The Geopolitics of End Time Belief in the Era of George W. Bush