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The International Religious Freedom Act The International Religious Freedom Act
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Martyrs and Memory in the Cold War Martyrs and Memory in the Cold War
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Rights Talk Rights Talk
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Praying Locally Praying Locally
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The Emergence of a Movement: 1989 and the 10/40 Window The Emergence of a Movement: 1989 and the 10/40 Window
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Does Human Rights Need God? Do the Godly Need Human Rights? Does Human Rights Need God? Do the Godly Need Human Rights?
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Prayer and Politics Prayer and Politics
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Activism and Debate on the IRFA Activism and Debate on the IRFA
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The Spectacle of Persecution The Spectacle of Persecution
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Complexities: The Sudan Peace Act Complexities: The Sudan Peace Act
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Conclusion: But Where Are the Liberals? Conclusion: But Where Are the Liberals?
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7 The Persecuted Body: Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and the Politics of Fear
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Published:October 2012
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This chapter examines the politics of fear underlying the antipersecution discourse that revolved around evangelical Christians at the turn of the twenty-first century. A video made by the U.S.-based Christian evangelical group Voice of the Martyrs showed that Christians are being persecuted all around the world. By the turn of the twenty-first century, a passionate concern with the persecution of Christians united conservatives as well as liberal and moderate evangelicals. The chapter shows how antipersecution discourse resulted in the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. It also considers the significance of spectacles of the violated body to the discourse of persecution and how intense attention to Christian persecution created a tension for evangelicals between the universalizing language of human rights and a specific commitment to the “persecuted body” of Christ. Finally, it explores how evangelicals' attention to Christian persecution intersects with Islamic concerns.
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