Abstract
Many people dream of Eden because they long to live in an innocent time when our communities and beliefs were not under attack from so many different directions. The rise of conservative religion around the world is due in large part to the disconcerting, destabilizing effects of living in a wired, globalized world.1 Conservative religion, especially in its culturally reactionary forms, offers itself as a refuge from the anxiety of modernity—at its most extreme, it offers a return to the innocence of Eden.
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Geneva Convention True Believer Religious Conservative Enemy Combatant Nuclear Threat
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Notes
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© Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite 2010