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235 INDEx believers in, 103–5; in Bush administration , 142, 143, 158–59; communal aspect of, 128–29; conspiracy theory vs., 172–73; contingency of, 165; definition of, 7, 204n6; democracy threatened by, 115, 131–32, 164; dispensationalism in, 61, 108–11, 114, 120, 131, 204nn5–6; disregard for secular in, 110–11; ethics of, 130–32, 212–13n17; exclusionist character of, 131; as fantasy, 128–29; fundamentalism and, 204n5; historical interpretation in, 114–15, 118–20, 159–60; historical perspective on, 106–7; ideological function of, 9; influence of, 104; international politics and, 124–28; isolationism in, 194; liberalism vs., 10, 163; as myth, 127–28; persecution complex in, 129; political views associated with, 7–10, 106, 111, 114–15, 125–28, 131–33; in popular culture, 126–27; principles of, 106; in Reagan administration, 140; revenge and, 129–30; September 11, 2001, and, 143, 158–59; vs. skepticism, 166–67, 169; time in, 108–11, 114, 120; unbelievers as viewed in, 115–16, 119, 129–32; violent implications of, 105. See also prophecy interpretation Arblaster, Anthony, 5, 36, 90 Are We Living in the End Times? (LaHaye and Jenkins), 109 abortion, 28–29, 33–34, 94–95, 148, 158, 168 Act of Marriage, The (LaHaye and LaHaye), 148 Adams, John, 153 Adams, Samuel, 153 Aderholt, Robert, 158 affect, definition of, 82 African American Christian fundamentalists , 214n3 agency panic, 174–75 Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq, 179–80 alien abductions, 168–69 Althusser, Louis, 45 ambiguity, fear of, 147, 149 American Coalition for Traditional Values, 116 American Family Association, 135 Ammerman, Nancy, 8–9, 103 ancient rhetorical theory: adaptation of, 46–47, 207n9; and man-measure doctrine , 48; postmodernism and, 45–46; shortcomings of, 46; subject in, 50–51 anger, definition of, 86 antagonism, as essential to politics, 19–22 Antichrist, 126–28, 173 antifoundationalism, 13 anti-Semitism, 173–74 apocalyptism, 102–32; abortion and, 158; adaptability of, 107; appeal of, 126–30; approaches to, ix–x; articulation of, 61; 236 iNdex Arendt, Hannah, 17 argument: as articulated beliefs, 75; available spectrum for, 49–50; avoidance of, 29–30; conservative Christian method of, 143–44, 147, 163, 168, 191; contingency of, 49; definition of, 75; market influence on, 171–72; requirements for, 29; risks of, 30, 33, 196; winning and losing in, 32–33. See also rhetoric Aristotle: on anger, 86; on conjecture and proof, 67; on dunamis, 51; on emotion in rhetoric, 79, 82; on enthymeme, 87–88; on examples, 198; first principles for, 13; on language, 45; on misuse of good things, 24; on oikos, 17; as practitioner of rhetoric, 34; rhetoric defined by, 27; on rhetoric in democracy, 18; on signs as argumentative device, 159–60; textbooks on rhetoric by, 54; on values in rhetorical discourse, 89 Armageddon, 11–12, 140 Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East Crisis (Walvoord), 107 articulations: concept of, 60; history/age of, 60–61 Ashcroft, John, 142 Aspasia, 34 Atta, Mohamed, 186, 217n9 Atwill, Janet, 22, 27–29, 45, 48, 53, 55 audience: life situations as influences on, 40–43, 48; role of, in rhetoric, 38–42 Augustine, 34 Austin, J. L., 45 Bacon, Francis, 34 Baldwin, Charles Sears, 25 Balmer, Randall, 7, 102–3, 126, 136, 148 Barker, Dan, 191 Barkun, Michael, 172 Barr, James, 112, 127, 131 Barthes, Roland, 98 Battle for the Mind (LaHaye), 117 Baudrillard, Jean, 146 Bauer, Gary, 135 Bawer, Bruce, 131 Beauvoir, Simone de, 192 beliefs: body and, 69, 93; challenges to, 74; changing, 189–201; as commonplaces, 70–75; as conjectural, 67–70; contradictory , 59; definition of, 70; emotion in relation to, 82–88; faith in, 170–71; habitus and, 65–66; hardwiring of, 209n8; ideologic and, 61, 75–79; as moments of ideology, 64; rhetoric and, 4; social character of, 70; subject in relation to, 57; usefulness vs. truth of, 69; visceral, 87–88. See also doxa Berlet, Chip, 136, 140, 142 Berrigan, Daniel, 10 Berrigan, Phillip, 10 Bevilacqua, Vincent M., 35 biblical inerrancy, 117–24; apocalyptism supported by, 118; common sense and, 120–22; as essential principle of Christian fundamentalism, 103, 105; fantasy and, 128; LaHaye and, 117–18. See also biblical interpretation biblical interpretation, 120–22, 131, 144. See also prophecy interpretation Biesecker, Barbara, 51 Billig, Michael, 27 bin Laden, Osama, 59, 175–76, 185 Bivins, Jason, 10, 145 Blair, Hugh, 35 Bloom, Harold, 122–23 Blumenthal, Sidney, 142 Book of Jerry Falwell, The (Harding), 114 Boone, Kathleen, 111, 121, 129, 131 Booth, Wayne, 41–42, 90–91, 198 Bourdieu, Pierre, 47, 48...

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