scholarly journals Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Christopher Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Christian Right ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Jerry Jenkins ◽  
The U.S

Apocalypse is a phenomenology of disorder that entails a range of religious affects and experiences largely outside normative expectations of benevolent religion. Vindication, judgment, revenge, resentment, righteous hatred of one’s enemies, the wish for their imminent destruction, theological certainty, the triumphant display of right authority, right judgement, and just punishment—these are the primary affects. As a literary genre and a worldview, apocalypse characterizes both the most famous example of evangelical fiction—the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins—and the U.S. Christian Right’s politics. This article’s methodological contribution is to return us to the beginnings of apocalypse in Biblical and parabiblical literature to better understand the questions of theodicy that Left Behind renews in unexpected ways. Conservative white Christians use apocalypse to articulate their experience as God’s chosen but persecuted people in a diversely populated cosmos, wherein their political foes are the enemies of God. However strange the supersessionist appropriation, apocalypse shapes their understanding of why God lets them suffer so—and may also signal an underlying fear about the power and attention of their deity.

scholarly journals Third Neighbor Policy Concept in Mongolia’s Geopolitics

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Bayasgalan Sanallkhundev
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Trade Relation ◽  
Strategic Partner ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
The U.S

Since the 1900s when Mongolia fought for its independence, it was looking for an ally or a supporter on which it could rely on. One of the options was third neighbor. During the dramatic times Mongolia tried to approach Japan, as the closest possible country to have relation, and the U.S. as a country somehow caught its attention, to establish, if not diplomatic, at least trade relation. Third neighbor policy is unique, as it is associated only with Mongolia due to its unique geographic location. Looking for third neighbor, it is important for Mongolia to maintain balance between two big neighbors, and to have relationship with other developed countries. But the U.S. saw Mongolia not only as a young and a good example of democracy, and strategic partner, but also possible “ally” which lies between Russia and China. Third neighbor policy is not just an ordinary policy in foreign policy; it is a concept which is important for Mongolia, for a country which is sandwiched between two big nuclear Powers. With changing international environment Mongolia’s strategic importance never left behind. Here will be discussed that Mongolia’s third neighbor policy cannot be limited just with foreign policy or relationships with other countries. But it could have broader meaning from geo-strategic perspective, depending from international politics. I am arguing that third neighbor policy is more than just a foreign policy, it is a concept.

The U.S. Left Behind: The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Andrew Karolyi ◽  
Craig Doidge ◽  
Rene M. Stulz
Keyword(s):  
Left Behind ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Norms and Care Relationships in Transnational Families: The Case of Elderly Parents Left Behind in Lithuania

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Migration Rates ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Care Relationships

AbstractIn the context of high migration rates and limited formal care support for the elderly the paper deals with normative expectations and actual flows of support in Lithuanian transnational families. The study is based on a representative survey of elderly parents who have at least one migrant child (N=305). The data analysis revealed predominance of familistic attitudes towards filial responsibilities in transnational families. We did not find any significant differences in filial expectations between the two types of transnational families (elderly parents having only migrant children and those with both migrant and non-migrant children). High expectations of elderly parents are not being met in regards to face-to-face and virtual contacts with migrant adult children. The differences in provided/ received emotional support between migrant and non-migrant children were insignificant. However, the data revealed significant differences in provided/received financial support between migrant and non-migrant children.

Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of the Ethical Issues

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

The capacity to focus on the issue of humanitarian intervention represents what Joel Rosenthal has noted as the maturation of the field of ethics and international affairs. If nothing else, the debate surrounding this vexed issue has demonstrated that we have left behind the so-called oxymoron problem: there is no reason now to be defensive about bracketing the terms “ethics” and “international relations.” One can hardly talk about Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia, or any cases of possible outside intervention, without recognizing from the very beginning that ethical dilemmas abound in the way we define our goals, our interests, and the means we use to pursue them. Even Samuel P. Huntington, not usually known to be a moralist, has asserted that “it is morally unjustifiable and politically indefensible that members of the [U.S.] armed forces should be killed to prevent Somalis from killing one another.” Whether or not one agrees with that assertion (I do not), one may note that Huntington speaks in terms of moral justification and regards his view of morality to be, in effect, self-evidently true. Thus even archrealists invoke morality in urging their preferred policies.The discussion in this essay proceeds in three unequal stages. First, I present a brief and oversimple sketch of the objective and subjective changes in the broader milieu of international relations as they relate to humanitarian intervention. Second, and more substantially, I survey and analyze the arguments justifying or opposing the notion of humanitarian intervention from realist and liberal perspectives. Finally, I offer the beginnings of my own argument and consider the enormous difficulties of undertaking humanitarian intervention with any degree of effectiveness and consistency.

Marks of the Beast

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn W. Shuck
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Jerry Jenkins ◽  
Cultural Marginality

The Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have become a major publishing phenomenon in recent years. The novels have succeeded in part because they address the anxieties of their readers, using apocalyptic language to depict a future world in which evildoers are punished, and the faithful reverse the tables on their cultural marginality. The novels, however, also speak to the "here and now," articulating in narrative form the beliefs and actions that place one among either the saved or the damned. The novels accomplish this through the issuance of marks. Both believers and the followers of Antichrist have distinctive marks, which prove less than reliable. At stake, ultimately, is an evangelicalism open to the ambiguity and uncertainty of contemporary life, and a reactive fundamentalism that insists, metaphorically, on the rigidity of marks——a quest for certainty ill-advised in a world characterized by relentless change.*

scholarly journals The U.S. Left Behind: The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Doidge ◽  
G. Andrew Karolyi ◽  
René Stulz
Keyword(s):  
Left Behind ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S
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