The Turner Diaries and Cosmotheism: William Pierce's Theology

ABSTRACT: The 19 April 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City brought media attention to bear on a violent, futuristic novel that had been widely circulated in the radical right political subculture for nearly two decades prior to the disaster. Although the media would not expl...

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Main Author: Whitsel, Brad (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 1998
In: Nova religio
Year: 1998, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-197
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