Introduction: The GOP and the Christian Right -- George W. Bush, the War on Terror, Certitude and Aporias: We're Ready to Believe You -- Imprecating Whiteness and Losing Black Religious Freedom: The Damned Road from Jeremiah Wright to Rick Warren in the Obama Campaign -- Amalekites and Birthrights: The Birther Conspiracy, Dominion Theology, and Othering Barack Obama -- The Holy Wars and the Crusade against Obama: Muslim Conspiracy Theories and the War on Terror -- Conclusion: The 4 Horsemen and a turn to the Eschatological.
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"This book examines the intersections of religion and race in the context of the Christian Right''s responses to the presidency of Barack Obama. Perry argues that the context of the war on terror allowed long-standing arguments on the Christian Right to morph into conspiracy theories and adversarial claims directed at President Obama"-- Provided by publisher.
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