Jeffrey W. Robbins is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy (August 2002 to present) and Director of the College Colloquium (January 2006 to present) Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania. Neal Magee is Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, 2005-2007. Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University

"[Magee's] insights are powerful and important in the consideration of the marriage of religion and politics in America today...his writing is powerful due to the imagery it invokes in each word, like he painfully exorcises every syllable from some demonic labyrinth hidden deep in the bowels of the planet. Those bowels are always political in his eyes, when he concludes that, quoting Robert Bork, "There is an eager and growing market for depravity, and profitable industries [are] devoted to supplying it." America's Sleeping Giant is feeding from this depravity, and this collection of essays does an exceptional job of shining a light on some of the more hidden aspects in our culture today." - Popmatters.com

• 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.

Jeffrey W. Robbins is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy (August 2002 to present) and Director of the College Colloquium (January 2006 to present) Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania. Neal Magee is Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, 2005-2007. Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University

"[Magee's] insights are powerful and important in the consideration of the marriage of religion and politics in America today...his writing is powerful due to the imagery it invokes in each word, like he painfully exorcises every syllable from some demonic labyrinth hidden deep in the bowels of the planet. Those bowels are always political in his eyes, when he concludes that, quoting Robert Bork, "There is an eager and growing market for depravity, and profitable industries [are] devoted to supplying it." America's Sleeping Giant is feeding from this depravity, and this collection of essays does an exceptional job of shining a light on some of the more hidden aspects in our culture today." - Popmatters.com

• 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.

Jeffrey W. Robbins is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy (August 2002 to present) and Director of the College Colloquium (January 2006 to present) Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania. Neal Magee is Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, 2005-2007. Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University

"[Magee's] insights are powerful and important in the consideration of the marriage of religion and politics in America today...his writing is powerful due to the imagery it invokes in each word, like he painfully exorcises every syllable from some demonic labyrinth hidden deep in the bowels of the planet. Those bowels are always political in his eyes, when he concludes that, quoting Robert Bork, "There is an eager and growing market for depravity, and profitable industries [are] devoted to supplying it." America's Sleeping Giant is feeding from this depravity, and this collection of essays does an exceptional job of shining a light on some of the more hidden aspects in our culture today." - Popmatters.com

• 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.