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Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. Their activity coincides with the promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a program of migration to the ""American Redoubt,"" a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, parts of eastern Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a haven in which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster and in which to build a new social order. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of this little-noted migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism. Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power. Their strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. This survivalist evangelical subculture recognizes that they have lost the culture war--but another kind of conflict is beginning.

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Crawford Gribben is professor of history at Queen's University Belfast, and is the author of a number of books on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, including God's Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland, Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America, Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-2000, and John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat. Fred Sanders is a Yale graduate, originally from New York, whose acting credits include performances on Broadway (Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story) and national tours (Driving Miss Daisy and Big River). Since moving to LA in 1991, he has worked on TV (Seinfeld, The West Wing, Will & Grace) and film (The Shadow, Candyman) in addition to narrating over 150 audiobooks.

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