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A well-written and engaging examination of American spiritual warfare texts that provides a compelling theoretical intervention, one that reveals the fissures cracking the formative logics of U.S. nation state sovereignty and its binaries of good/evil, insider/outsider, and pure/impure. -- Sean McCloud, author of American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States This beautifully written, sophisticated analysis of spiritual warfare writing illuminates much about the colonial, white-supremacist state of the contemporary United States. S. Jonathan O'Donnell takes us into this genre of apocalyptic thought and compels us to pay attention to its deep political hold. Drawing on insights from critical race theory, decolonial theory, and critical theory, O'Donnell shows how prophecy writers try to fend off difference yet are ultimately compromised by, or implicated in, the very uncertainty and oppression that they seek to forestall. A must read for those seeking to understand the influence of apocalyptic thought on U.S. politics. -- Erin Runions, author of The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty

A well-written and engaging examination of American spiritual warfare texts that provides a compelling theoretical intervention, one that reveals the fissures cracking the formative logics of U.S. nation-state sovereignty and its binaries of good/evil, insider/outsider, and pure/impure. -- Sean McCloud, author of American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States This beautifully written, sophisticated analysis of spiritual warfare writing illuminates much about the colonial, white-supremacist state of the contemporary United States. S. Jonathon O'Donnell takes us into this genre of apocalyptic thought and compels us to pay attention to its deep political hold. Drawing on insights from critical race theory, decolonial theory, and critical theory, O'Donnell shows how prophecy writers try to fend off difference yet are ultimately compromised by, or implicated in, the very uncertainty and oppression that they seek to forestall. A must-read for those seeking to understand the influence of apocalyptic thought on U.S. politics. -- Erin Runions, author of The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty

Passing Orders re-deploys queer theory concerns with sovereignty, ontology, and futurity by applying them to neocharismatic Christian demonology literature, that which demonizes queer, black, indigenous, and colonized bodies as integrally, inevitably, and incontestably other. -- Society and Space A well-written and engaging examination of American spiritual warfare texts that provides a compelling theoretical intervention, one that reveals the fissures cracking the formative logics of U.S. nation-state sovereignty and its binaries of good/evil, insider/outsider, and pure/impure.---Sean McCloud, author of American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States, This beautifully written, sophisticated analysis of spiritual warfare writing illuminates much about the colonial, white-supremacist state of the contemporary United States. S. Jonathon O'Donnell takes us into this genre of apocalyptic thought and compels us to pay attention to its deep political hold. Drawing on insights from critical race theory, decolonial theory, and critical theory, O'Donnell shows how prophecy writers try to fend off difference yet are ultimately compromised by, or implicated in, the very uncertainty and oppression that they seek to forestall. A must-read for those seeking to understand the influence of apocalyptic thought on U.S. politics.---Erin Runions, author of The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty,

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S. Jonathon O’Donnell is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at University College Dublin.

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