
Introduction
the leading historian of israel, gershom gorenberg (2002), called evangelicalmovements in italy and germany at the beginning of the twentieth
century, and therefore constitute a gathering threat to american democracy.
edward said (2002, n.p.) wrote that Christian Zionists were “a menace to the
world and furnish[ed] Bush’s government with its rationale for punishing evil
while righteously condemning whole populations to submission and p
prophecy of the apocalypse “dangerous” for american and israeli interests. in
American Fascists (2007), pulitzer prize-winning journalist and harvard divinity
school graduate Christopher hedges argued that evangelicals resemble the
early fascist overty.”
alternatively, Christian principles of forgiveness and humility offer political
‘ways forward’ that reject the processes of division that bring out the polemical
energy in the above quotes
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it has been argued in geopolitical literature recently that “religion is the
emerging political language of the time” (agnew 2006, 183) and “international
politics is being increasingly scripted in the spatial grammar of a millennial
struggle between good and evil” (Bialasiewicz 2006, 720). With four of the last
seven U.s. presidents claiming to be ‘born-again’ (Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan,
Bill Clinton, and george W. Bush)1 political geographers should be attentive to
the strategies and reasoning practices used in the name of religion. geographic
inquiry into apocalyptic or millennial Christianity is often hinted at but has, with
few exceptions, received no focused analysis (but see special issues of the journals
Hérodote 2005 and Geopolitics 2006; gerhardt 2008).
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