American Dominion : The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom

worldview, conspiracy cultures such as QAnon find ready spiritual reinforcement, deepening polarization and accelerating radicalization within the modern Republican coalition. Moving from the early twentieth-century Pentecostal-charismatic revival movement to today's networked megachurches, Ladner shows how a once-obscure religious fringe built durable institutions and mass appeal through dramatic healing revivals, disciplined teaching, and a steady drumbeat of "chosen nation\u0022 rhetoric. She maps the formation of a religious counterculture-often presented as conventional conservatism-shaped by curricula that traveled from homeschooling into wider educational spaces. The result is a vibrant, fast-growing religious movement that promises spiritual power and national renewal, even as it places America's democratic norms under increasing strain. [Publisher's text]

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