The Shadow Gospel
How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics
$79.98
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2025
Summary
A novel account of the culture wars and Evangelical influence in the United States that traces the 80-year rise of a quasi-religious anti-liberal demonology.
When people talk about the chaotic, increasingly precarious political landscape in the United States, they often blame polarization and the culture wars. In The Shadow Gospel, Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway tell a very different story. Analyzing eighty years of densely overlapping religious and secular messages preac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552272 |
| Author: | Whitney Phillips, Mark Brockway |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“An extraordinary new account of our own American demons… A transcendent, boundary-breaking work.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
About The Author
Whitney Phillips
Whitney Phillips is Assistant Professor of Digital Platforms and Media Ethics in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She is the coauthor of You Are Here and the author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. She is also the coauthor of a digital ethics guide, Share Better and Stress Less, written for middle school readers.
Mark Brockway is Assistant Teaching Professor in Political Science at Syracuse University. His research centers on religious and political identity and activism as expressed through party politics, in the electorate, and in governmental institutions.
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