Afterword: End times in america religious fundamentalism and the crisis of democracy religious fundamentalism and the crisis of democracy

With George W. Bush’s presidency ended, religious funda-mentalism seems once again to be in overdrive in its effort to define politics through a reductive and somewhat fanatical moralism, this time centered on its support for Sarah Palin, the newest light in the evangelical quest to make religion the ultimate measure of one’s politics. This kind of religious zealotry has a long tradition in American history extending from the arrival of …