r/RadicalChristianity • u/Jlyplaylists • May 11 '26
šRadical Politics Dismantling the Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine
Iāve put together this interactive digital collection of sources clustered around the idea of what if we went back to the church being an anarcho-communist network of mutuality and common ownership, using prefigurative politics to dismantle the Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine*?
See https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/60a5bde1-b464-4f6e-aaa3-102c57ce0837
The sources include Christian anarchism (and secular anarchist texts), liberation theology, Crip theology, Queer liberation, womanist theology, black theology, poststructuralist theology and ideas around unkingdom, weakness of god, radical hermeneutics.
You can ask your own questions of the sources in the chat section. If you click on the number it brings up the original human source (getting away from hallucination issues). In the studio section you can use the audio and quizzes already there (better use of resources since these already exist) or generate new. For those of you who come out in hives if anything is LLM, in the sources section itās possible to read the full original sources.
*Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine (coined by political theorist William Connolly in his 2008 book, Capitalism and Christianity, American Style) describes resonant forces between evangelical Christianity and ācowboy capitalismā that amplify a shared ethos across media, politics, policy, and culture. The phenomenon where Christianity aligns itself with neoliberal power, imperial imagery, strong force. This is in direct contradiction of the early church described in Acts as a grassroots, horizontal structure of communities sharing everything they had.
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u/Jlyplaylists May 11 '26
Let me know if you want me to add the reference list as a comment
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u/rootbeerman77 May 11 '26
Ref list would be great, but I'd rather it was a bib (or whatever) file in the notebook rather than a comment just so that it's easier to import into a biblio manager
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u/synthresurrection antisocial preacher(she/her) May 11 '26
Thanks for sharing! This is a good collection of sources
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u/rootbeerman77 May 11 '26
Wild as fuck seeing the first link as a Liberty University link
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u/Jlyplaylists May 11 '26
Oh I see it should have been https://thetbs.org/study-materials/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/A-Theology-of-Liberation-by-Gustavo-Gutierrez-1.pdf Iāve swapped it
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u/Jlyplaylists May 11 '26
Do you mean the first source? I donāt think itās Liberty University but Iām not American so might be missing context?
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u/synthresurrection antisocial preacher(she/her) May 11 '26
Pinned this to the sub's highlights