Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America : Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (9780199370221)

Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These believers have often given up on the politics of the Christian Right, adopting strategies of hibernation while developing the communities and institutions from which a new America might one day emerge. Their activity coincides with the
promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a program of migration to the "American Redoubt," a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, parts of eastern Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a haven in which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster and in which to build a new social order.
These migration movements have independent origins, but they overlap in their influences and aspirations, working in tandem to offer a vision of the present in which Christian values must be defended as American society is rebuilt according to biblical law. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of this little-noted migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism.

Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power. Their books are promoted by leading mainstream publishers and listed as New York Times bestsellers. Their strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. This
survivalist evangelical subculture recognizes that they have lost the culture war - but another kind of conflict is beginning.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 164 x 243 x 20mm | 452g
• Publication date 10 Aug 2021
• Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0199370222
• ISBN13 9780199370221
• Bestsellers rank 1,810,906

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