[Uwhistory] "Why the Antichrist Matters in American Politics for 2012", Founders Annual Lecture in Comparative Religion and Contemporary Life (fwd)

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Subject: "Why the Antichrist Matters in American Politics for 2012",
     Founders Annual Lecture in Comparative Religion and Contemporary Life


FEBRUARY 7, 2012

"Why the Antichrist Matters in American Politics for 2012", Founders Annual 
Lecture in
Comparative Religion and Contemporary Life, will be presented by Prof. Matthew 
Sutton,
Associate Prof. of History at Washington State University. Kane Hall 220, 7:30 
PM

    Sutton's first book, "Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of 
Christian
America" (Harvard University Press, 2007), won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial 
Prize from
Harvard University Press, awarded annually to the best book in any discipline 
by a
first-time author. The book also served as the basis for the Public 
Broadcasting Service
documentary Sister Aimee, part of PBS’s American Experience series. Sutton has 
been
featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition among many other news 
shows. He has
an article forthcoming in the Journal of American History entitled “Was FDR the
Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Anti-liberalism in a Global Age,” and 
has
previously published articles in Church History, the Journal of Policy History, 
and the
Public Historian. He has received research fellowships from the National 
Endowment for
the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Sutton 
has also
written for the New York Times.

     Sutton’s current book project, tentatively entitled American Evangelicals 
and the
Politics of Apocalypse (Harvard University Press) examines relationships among 
American
evangelicalism, apocalyptic thought, and political activism during times of 
national
crisis and war. He is also completing a textbook, Jerry Falwell and the Origins 
of the
Religious Right, which will be part of the popular Bedford “History and 
Culture” series
(Bedford/St. Martin’s).