Christopher Douglas

Christopher Douglas is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches American literature, and is the author of If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right. Follow him on Twitter at @crddouglas and read his other work here.

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Religion Dispatches

Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology

The End keeps on not coming, but the delay has produced yet another opportunity for a Left Behind film. Directed by and starring Kevin Sorbo, Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist was released just last…

Christopher Douglas

February 15, 2023

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Religion Dispatches

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

Daniel Silliman’s new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith, is an engaging history of evangelical fiction, focused on the infrastructure of publishers…

Christopher Douglas

August 5, 2021

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Religion Dispatches

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote, premised on the “Big Lie” that voter fraud was behind President Joe Biden’s election. The…

Christopher Douglas

July 6, 2021

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