Spiritual Warfare and Right-Wing Authoritarianism
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https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.21739Keywords:
right-wing authoritarianism, Global Christianity, Philippines, Spiritual Warfare, Rodrigo Duterte, Donald Trump, Jair BolsonaroAbstract
This article focuses on contemporary spiritual warfare discourse and on the apparent affinity to right-wing authoritarianism of Christians related to it. Drawing on material from the Philippines, I investigate the role of scholarship in fostering said affinity by reading Christians, who seem to be connected to the spiritual warfare discourse, through the lens of prominent U.S.-American dominionists. I argue that the approach of global religious history helps to critique the Anglo-Eurocentric and elitist biases underlying current research about Christianity in the majority world.
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