Thread by @vhobbs5

In case you missed it, here's a promo for my next book w/@MayflyBooks,
No Love in War: A Story of Christian Nationalism.
It takes readers through 3 circles of Christian Dominionism, reading the wars religious supremacists wage against the world against their wars at home.

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From the introduction:
"For the uninitiated into Christian Reconstructionism and other arms of the Christian Dominionist movement in the United States and beyond, @julieingersoll accurately summarises the central goal of this cluster of political ideologies as ...

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'establishing the kingdom on earth to prepare for Christ’s return required Christians to transform the world/take dominion, a view that became an article of faith for the religious right, which popularized versions of post-millennialism as dominion or “kingdom now” theology.'

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Christian Dominionism runs across the theological spectrum, from the intellectually high-minded Calvinist Christian Reconstructionism still popular in orthodox branches of conservative Christianity to the more “Spirit-led” Charismatic and Pentecostal Kingdom Now and ...

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New Apostolic Reformation movements currently sweeping the world via such institutions as Brian Houston’s Hillsong Church. And more recently, Ruth Braunstein has recently devastatingly captured the pivotal role of the cultivation of a white evangelical myth of ...

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Christians-under-siege by a godless-pluralistic-culture in radicalising this wide range of (mostly white) evangelical Christians to a Dominionist mindset. This myth has been immensely effective in fostering communal commitment and extremist values and lifestyle, ...

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... writes Braunstein, and “despite public infighting, white evangelicals appear to be extremely unified and mobilized, and at the center of conservative power structures.” Yet, we must acknowledge that underneath this façade of cooperation is a pattern of exploitation, ...

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... enacted through violence, not just of Christian Dominionists’ perceived enemies but of the very base that they claim to serve.
It is the everyday stories of this hidden warfare that this book documents.
Where Christian Dominionists live by gluttony for power, ...

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... imagining themselves as soldiers in a war between the righteous and the evil ones, between believers and unbelievers, this book exposes the underbelly of such a narrative, ...

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... the perpetuation of intergenerational violence between aggressors and survivors and everyone in-between within Dominionists’ very own communities.

The histories written about the movements I have been involved in subtly or even overtly erase the voices of women,

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of the marginalised and of the violence done to us. I’ve read their accounts, and I know what is missing. I know what hides in the cracks. I know."

As part of my resistance to the exploitative capitalism of Christian Dominionism, this book will be fully #OpenAccess.

See more here:
csbvbristol.org.uk/2023/03/20/no-…