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Journal Article
Radical politics and the Apocalypse: activist readings of Revelation
2013
Overview
The growth of the study of the geopolitics of religion is welcome after decades of neglect. However, the narrow focus upon right-wing American interpretations of end-times theology writes evangelical Christians as geography's 'repugnant cultural other' who constitute us as the modern, progressive, rational subject. Drawing on parallel debates in the anthropology of religion, this article stresses the importance of attending to other readings of the Apocalypse in other places. Using the examples of Dan Berrigan, William Stringfellow and Allan Boesak, it shows how justice and peace activists have read the Book of Revelation as a radical anti-imperial text and found in it a source of resilience for non-violent resistance in the face of apparently overwhelming odds.
