A collection of articles by a group of young scholars addressing the nexus between political conservatism, evangelical Christianity, and American consumerist culture. Drawing upon examples from contemporary culture, these articles are a critical engagement with this turn and attempt to delineate its dynamics, trajectory, and content.

Drawing widely upon examples from contemporary culture, these articles are a critical engagement with this turn and attempt to delineate its dynamics, trajectory, and content.

Introduction
"A Taste for Theory" - John D. Caputo
1. "Radical Religion and American Democracy" - Jeffrey W. Robbins
2. "Prophetic Evangelicalism: Towards a Politics of Hope" - Peter Goodwin Heltzel
3. "A Christian Politics of Vulnerability" - Anna Mercedes
4. "Truthiness, Family Values and Conservative Consumerism" - Adam S. Miller
5. " "The Cultural Logic of Evangelical Christianity" - Christopher Haley and Creston Davis. 6. "Jeb Stuart's Revenge: The Civil War, the Religious Right, and American Fascism" - Clayton Crockett
7. "In What Sense is the United States a Theocracy?" - Ben Stahlberg
8. "Christianity, Capitalism, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republic" - Andrew Saldino
9. "Sovereignty and State-Form" - Rocco Gangle
10. "The Politics of Immanence" - J. Heath Atchley
11. "An Army of One?' Subject, Signifier, and the Symbolic" - Melissa Conroy
12. "Freedom Ain't Free: Politics and Religion at the Heart of a Muddled Concept" - Mary-Jane Rubenstein
13. "Incongruent Beliefs and the Vitality of Fantasy: The New Politics of Religion" - Neal Magee
Postface
"Better Dead than Red - Again!" - Slavoj Zizek.