{"id":691,"date":"2021-02-18T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliterationanonymous.com\/?page_id=691"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:19:05","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alliterationanonymous.com\/?page_id=691","title":{"rendered":"My work"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Donald Trump\u2019s no outlier, but epitomizes the malignant heart and soul of American evangelicalism; they are a match made in heaven.
Both a timid, ignorant liberal media establishment and a cloistered, largely indifferent class of American academic drones\u2014dwelling in what Mary Douglas might call the hallowed groves of Pentecostalism\u2014have completely whiffed on the social, political, cultural, and theological origins of the revolution of disenchantment that carried an evangelical-inspired-and-infested Trump administration to power.<\/p>

In Paradise Joe\u2019s, a rogue cultural sociologist demonstrates how evangelicalism came to occupy the ideological heart of American society and politics. He transforms what might have been a conven-tional academic case study into an entertaining, jargon-free tale of one small Christian college community, an account filled with memorable local and national characters, all the while gleaning from it the larger meaning and significance of evangelicalism in American life.<\/p>

\u2013 Why has evangelicalism made a progressive, European-style social democracy\u2014and universal healthcare\u2014a virtual impossibility?\u00a0<\/p>

\u2013 Why the corrosive distrust of government and science?\u00a0<\/p>

\u2013 Why the malingering legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, of legal and economic inequality?\u00a0<\/p>

\u2013 Why the persistent urban\/rural antagonisms?\u00a0<\/p>

In sum, why are we so different from our closest European ancestors and kin?<\/p>

Paradise Joe\u2019s takes these and other daunting questions head on.
In a second extended bonus appendix for academicians, the author tacks his 95 theses of Paradise Joe\u2019s onto the Wittenberg door of a deeply compromised American sociology of religion.<\/p>

Observe here the crazy old aunt of evangelicalism dragged down from the attic and cast out into the open, exposed to the light of day for the first time.<\/p>

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\u2014For What It\u2019s Worth: The Cultural Origins of \u201cAlternative Facts.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 (original 10\/27\/2017, revised)
\u2014(What Really Happened): Donald Trump, The Empty Vessels of Evangelicalism, & The End of the World (or New Wine into Old Wineskins).<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (original version 8\/18\/2017, revised)
\u2014A Match Made in Heaven, or Hell: Donald Trump and the American Evangelical Reformation (An Open Letter to The Eastern Liberal Media Establishment).<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 (original 4\/23\/2020, revised)<\/p>

\u2014Deus Absconditus: America Without God \u201cAs religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen.\u201d (A Response to Shadi Hamid). \u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>(original 10\/13\/2021, revised)
\u2014American Jihad.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>(original 6\/11\/2021, revised)
\u2014Beyond The Pleasure Principle, or Vaccines & The Republican Death Instinct. (re: Sigmund Freud, 1920).<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>(original 9\/20\/2021, revised)
\u2014Sowing The Seeds of Love: The Real Conspiracy Theory.<\/em> \u00a0 <\/strong>(original 3\/7\/2022, revised)
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