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{"title":"Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts By Michelle Ann Abate, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. p. 209","authors":"Kathy Merlock Jackson","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 2","pages":"164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recollecting collecting: A film and media perspective By Lucy Fischer, editor. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2023","authors":"Cary Elza","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13522","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jacc.13522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140266587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Winning against God's earth: The Religious Right's use of a competition framework to justify anti-environmentalism","authors":"Neall Pogue","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13531","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jacc.13531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"50-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140080985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new fundamentalism rising: The Southern Baptist Battle against the CRT “worldview”","authors":"Jacob Alan Cook","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13533","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jacc.13533","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The American political Right's coalescence in the late 2010s and early 2020s around opposition to “wokeness”—especially in the form of what it understands as “intersectionality” and “critical race theory” (CRT/I)—is well known. Less well known is the story of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) aligning with the political Right in late 2020, turning away from its more measured response to CRT/I the year prior. This article will explore theological–traditional sources for anti-CRT/I activism in the SBC's Right wing, focusing particularly on how “Evangelical Worldview Theory” (EWT) provides a rhetorical structure that delegitimates critical theories that rely on the historical analysis of structural aspects of social phenomena such as race.</p><p>Since the late 2010s, the political Right in the United States has been forecasting apocalypse if CRT/I are allowed to form the “worldview” of public-school children. Parts of this story are well documented. In 2020, protests erupted over George Floyd's death at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, the latest of several similar fatalities across America. These focused popular attention on critical questions of race and state authority. In response, many institutions, public and ecclesial, offered or required antiracism training as part of initiatives to increase awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI. Parts of the training that were designed to interrogate “Whiteness,” in particular, left some participants feeling alienated. The COVID-necessitated online modality of this training allowed those alienated to extract charged sound bites that were then exhibited in the Right-wing mediasphere as evidence of the nefarious anti-White <i>true agenda</i> of DEI training. Right-wing political activist Christopher Rufo was the most effective promulgator of DEI disinformation. He used Freedom of Information Act requests and an online tip line to gather this kind of decontextualized “evidence” and distributed his “findings” in sensationalized online news articles (Wallace-Wells, <span>2021</span>). He appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in September 2020, calling on then-President Trump to end race-conscious training within federal agencies. By month's end, Rufo was consulting on executive orders shutting down DEI training in federal agencies (<span>2020a</span>, Executive Order 13950) and commissioning a group to respond to “revisionist” versions of American history that had foregrounded evidence of pervasive and longstanding systemic racism in American society (<span>2020b</span>, Executive Order 13958). That fall, Google searches for CRT spiked for the first time.<sup>1</sup> In a 2021 interview, Rufo described the phrase's rhetorical power: “Its connotations are all negative to most middle-class Americans, including racial minorities, who see the world as ‘creative’ rather than ‘critical,’ ‘individual’ rather than ‘racial,’ ‘practical’ rather than ‘theoretical.’ Strung together, t","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"41-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.13533","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140085041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black evangelicals, white evangelicalism","authors":"Isaac Sharp","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"33-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"#ChurchToo: Rethinking purity culture and reforming evangelicalism","authors":"Karen Swallow Prior","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"20-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evangelical literary tradition and moral foundations theory","authors":"Christopher Douglas","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13530","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Evangelical literature has long used Biblical stories and genres as inspiration for contemporary fictions—think of C. S. Lewis refreshing the gospel story in <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</i> and revising the Eden myth in his science fiction novel <i>Perelandra</i>. Yet Biblical literature, as an anthology of sacred writing by scores of authors (and editors) across perhaps a thousand years in wildly different cultural and historical contexts, is a vast tradition that articulates a range of ethical values, all expressed in an array of genres with varied but specific conventions. This article examines two evangelical bestsellers from the last 20 years, William Paul Young's <i>The Shack</i> (<span>2007</span>) and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins's <i>Glorious Appearing</i> (<span>2004</span>), the final novel in the Left Behind series, arguing that evangelicals draw on different Biblical genres for literary inspiration and religious faith. Their sales and movie adaptations attest to their continued power to move audiences. <i>The Shack</i> has sold over 20 million copies and was adapted in 2017 in a successful Hollywood movie starring Octavia Spencer and Sam Worthington, grossing $96 million in sales worldwide.<sup>1</sup> The Left Behind series, meanwhile, written between 1995 and 2004 (with the prequels and sequel penned 2005–2007), has sold 80 million copies and continues to drive evangelical cultural production in films and video games. The series has been adapted to film six times: Most recently in 2023, starring and directed by Kevin Sorbo, in 2014, starring Nicholas Cage, and in 2000, 2002, 2005, with Kirk Cameron. The 2014 and 2023 reboots are in what we might call the same Left Behind Cinematic Universe (LBCU), with Cage's film ending with him as protagonist Rayford Steele landing the plane many passengers have been raptured from, and Sorbo as Rayford continuing in the months after the Rapture as he and others become born again Christians and discover the Antichrist's identity. The sixth film was a 2017 spinoff of the 40 volume adolescent series Left Behind: The Kids, written between 1998 and 2005, featuring young people becoming Christians and facing the Tribulation. <i>The Shack</i> and the Left Behind series have enjoyed vibrant afterlives since publication, indicating their enduring power to move evangelical audiences over the last 20 years.</p><p>I argue in this article that we can measure the continued cultural appeal of these evangelical bestsellers by examining their animating moral values. To do so, I follow the lead of Bible scholar Carol Newsom, who uses the prism of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) to map the values of the book of Proverbs. MFT posits that transcultural human moral concerns are shaped by the values of care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation, which various cultures shape differently. Jonathan Haidt, the primary developer of MFT, has argued that liber","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"57-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.13530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Big-tent eschatology: Apocalypse as a mobilizing concept for the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot","authors":"Jenny Van Houdt","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"66-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exvangelical exodus: David Bazan and the fallout of culture war Christianity","authors":"Matthew Mullins","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13528","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"24-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Old town road By Chris Molanphy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 152. ISBN: 978-1-4780-2551-1","authors":"Kirsten Møllegaard","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}