Andrew Monteith is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at Indiana University. His research interests include Contemporary American expressions of supernaturalism, re-enchantment, myth/narrative, and mysticism, primarily in the Evangelical/Pentecostal, Neopagan, and New Age milieux.
demons and spiritual warfare aren’t something that snake handlers invented just yesterday, it is a major thread woven through the entire history of Christianity, and one that continues to be woven through it today. Something that strikes me about contemporary spiritual warfare is how it’s not so radically different thematically in its interests and its languages than a lot of contemporary American religion.
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