Tender Warriors: Muscular Christians, Promise Keepers, and the Crisis of Masculinity in <i>Left Behind</i>

Chapman, Jennie

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“…Chapman concludes her analysis saying, 'Godless modernity and "secular humanism" are often cited as fomenters of the gender "confusion" that many dispensationalists (including LaHaye and Jenkins) believe will usher in the end times. It is ironic, then, that the crisis of masculinity played out in LaHaye and Jenkins' apocalyptic novels emanates not from the chaotic secular world of gender trouble, but rather from the troublesome paradoxes of their own faith culture' (Chapman 2009).…”

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TheJournal of Religion and Popular Culture: more than old wine in new bottles

2013

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This essay delineates the history, scope and mandate of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JRPC) in the larger context of Religious Studies. The JRPC produces scholarship on the myriad ways in which religion is presented, produced, studied, interpreted, rationalised, manufactured and disseminated in popular culture. This article explains the journal's distinctive genesis in a Canadian context and provides a succinct analysis of its salient themes over the last two decades, including important trajectories today. It is shown that the JRPC offers more than 'old wine in new bottles' both in terms of content (themes) and products (analysis). Popular culture is an indicator of the type of activities that have gained prominence in mass media for conveying religious meaning, purpose and communal experience. The ubiquity of religious themes and experiences in popular culture necessitates their continued academic study.

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TheJournal of Religion and Popular Culture: more than old wine in new bottles

2013

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“To Sacrifice One’s Intellect Is More Demonic than Divine”: American Literature and Politics in Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days

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2014

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All that, including the pogrom of several billion souls: atheists, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and others who do not subscribe to the dispensationalist creed, is part of God's master plan to bring all to the true faith. For Darby, this theodicy was not a problem: his divine omelet clearly called for the breaking of a few billion eggs. The fact that God's retribution might rain indiscriminately on all people on Earth, born-again or not, was more disconcerting. In the end, Darby decided that, rather than suffer the equivalent of Amalric's 'Kill them all, for the Lord knows them that are His', true Christians would be spirited up to heaven just before the reign of terror began. Bailed out by the Rapture, they could then safely look down on God's carnage of those left behind. As to who qualifies as a true Christian, Darby's teachings were no different from that of the Calvinists, the Puritans, and the Separatists: nobody knows except the Lord.

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Tender Warriors: Muscular Christians, Promise Keepers, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Left Behind

Abstract: health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

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TheJournal of Religion and Popular Culture: more than old wine in new bottles

TheJournal of Religion and Popular Culture: more than old wine in new bottles

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“To Sacrifice One’s Intellect Is More Demonic than Divine”: American Literature and Politics in Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days

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