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The Impurities of Purification
Marking Boundaries and Demonizing
the Other in Third Wave Spiritual Warfare
A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture and keynote to the conference
“Religion, Conflict, & Boundary Maintenance”
Dr. Sean McCloud
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sponsored by Religious Studies, American Studies, Anthropology,
Communication & Culture, GSAS, History, and Islamic Studies
Sean McCloud is the author of Divine
Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and
Religious Studies (2007) and Making the American
Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and
Journalists, 1955-93 (2004). His current book
project is American Possessions: Consuming
Religions and Fighting Demons in the
Contemporary United States.
The featured presentation will map the
boundaries that the writers of Third Wave
evangelical spiritual warfare handbooks mark
between the satanic and the godly, finding the
demonic in other peoples’ religious
practices, cultural materials, and
political parties.
If you have a disability or need specific
accommodations, contact
iugradconf@gmail.com.
Friday, April 17 at 6:00 p.m.
Maurer School of Law
Room 122