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Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession Paperback – November 21, 1996
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From Publishers Weekly
While the word "antichrist"?the figure who ushers in the apocalypse of Christian end-time?appears but briefly in the Bible (1 and 2 John), the term has been all too frequently used throughout history by one group as a means of vilifying another group that appears to threaten the accusing group's worldview. Fuller, professor of religious studies at Bradley University, argues that naming the antichrist became a prevalent custom in the U.S. first because of the Puritans' apocalyptic tradition and subsequently because of feelings of vulnerability fanned by Native Americans and later by waves of immigrants who seemed to threaten the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. Fuller robustly explores the writings of those who at various and sundry times have railed against Catholics, Freemasons, and Jews (and even rock music and bar codes, for that matter) and seen them all as signs of the beast from the sea. He offers cogent psychological and sociological explanations for the hold of the idea of the antichrist upon the American imagination. If those explanations do not seem quite conclusive, however, it is because the extraordinarily arcane reasoning in naming the antichrist, so ably discussed here, ultimately itself escapes explanation.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
This fascinating and thoroughly documented account of the American obsession with "naming" the Antichrist begins with a concise history of the idea of Antichrist, tracing it from its obscure New Testament roots against the deeper background of apocalyptic thought in Judaism and to its increasingly prominent place in certain strands of Christianity. The author is particularly interested in the American development of the concept and does a thorough job of locating that development both in the history of the U.S. and against the background of earlier Christian apocalyptic. Of particular importance are his insights into the political contexts and uses of the concept, both in the past and in the present. Fuller's documentation of the tendency to "demonize" opponents in the process of naming them "Antichrist" provides a useful theoretical framework in which to understand the passion--and the venom--of "nativist" traditions in the U.S. and of the anti-Communist crusades that dominated much of the twentieth century. The interpretive epilogue is both a fine review of the relevant literature and an excellent example of the application of religious studies to understanding social and political movements. Given the growing political influence of conservative and fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. and the continued influence that naming the Antichrist has on their politics, this is an especially timely work. Steve Schroeder
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