Spiritual Warfare and Right-Wing Authoritarianism

This article focuses on contemporary spiritual warfare discourse and on the apparent affinity to right-wing authoritarianism of Christians related to it. Drawing on material from the Philippines, I investigate the role of scholarship in fostering said affinity by reading Christians, who seem to be c...

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Main Author: Maltese, Giovanni 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2021
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-33
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Philippines / Evangelical movement / Spiritual warfare / The Right / Authoritarianism
RelBib Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
FD Contextual theology
KBM Asia
KDG Free church
RA Practical theology
Further subjects:B Jair Bolsonaro
B Right-wing authoritarianism
B Donald Trump
B Philippines
B Rodrigo Duterte
B Spiritual Warfare
B Global Christianity
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Summary:This article focuses on contemporary spiritual warfare discourse and on the apparent affinity to right-wing authoritarianism of Christians related to it. Drawing on material from the Philippines, I investigate the role of scholarship in fostering said affinity by reading Christians, who seem to be connected to the spiritual warfare discourse, through the lens of prominent U.S.-American dominionists. I argue that the approach of global religious history helps to critique the Anglo-Eurocentric and elitist biases underlying current research about Christianity in the majority world.
ISSN:1743-1697
Contains:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.21739