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Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare

Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare

O'Donnell, S. Jonathon

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Literary CriticismReligion General General Political Science

ISBN10: 0823289680
ISBN13: 9780823289684
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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