S. Jonathon O’Donnell 
Passing Orders [EPUB ebook] 
Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare

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Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical “spiritual warfare” demonologies in contemporary America. Situating spiritual warfare as part of broader frameworks of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire management, author S. Jonathon O’Donnell exposes the theological foundations of the systems of queer- and transphobia, anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current U.S. political order.
O’Donnell argues that demonologies are not only tools of dehumanization but also ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies—models of the “right ordering” of space, time, and bodies that stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Alternative orders are demonized as passing, framed as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. Yet these orders refuse to simply pass on, instead giving strength to deviant desires that challenge the legitimacy of sovereign violence. Critically examining this challenge in the demonologies of three figures—Jezebel, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan—Passing Orders re-imagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.

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Table of Content

Introduction : Paradise Has Walls | 1
1 . Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity | 23
2. Jezebel Assemblages: Witchcraft , Queerness, Transnationality | 52
3. The Islamic Antichrist: An Eschatology of Blowback | 81
4. Leviathan’s Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order | 109
Conclusion : Paradise Refused | 141
Acknowledgments | 159
Notes | 161
Bibliography | 193
Index | 211

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S. Jonathon O’Donnell is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at University College Dublin.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9780823289691 ● File size 0.5 MB ● Publisher Fordham University Press ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2020 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7444277 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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