Hilary Brueck, «Doomsday Preppers Are Thinning Out Across the US, and It May Be Because President Trump Quiets Their Fears,» Business Insider, August 26, 2019, www.businessinsider.com/what-are-doomsday-preppers-why-are-they-right-wing-2019-8/.

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J. T. Jost et al., «Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cogntion,» Psychological Bulletin 129 (2003): 339–375.

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Gwendolyn Foster, Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of the Apocalypse (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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Michael F. Mills, «Obamageddon: Fear, the Far Right, and the Rise of ‘Doomsday’ Prepping in Obama’s America,» Journal of American Studies 20 (2019): 1–30.

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Levi Boxell, Matthew Gentzkow, and Jesse M. Shapiro, CrossCountry Trends in Affective Polarization, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 26669, January 2020, https://doi.org/10.3386/w26669. See also Ezra Klein, «What Polarization Data from 9 Countries Reveals About the US,» Vox, January 24, 2020, www.vox.com/2020/1/24/21076232/polarization-america-international-party-political.

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Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue, «How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization,» Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 1, 2019, https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/01/how-to-understand-global-spread-of-political-polarization-pub-79893.

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Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue, eds., Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2019).

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J. T. Jost et al., «Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,» Psychological Bulletin 129 (2003): 339–375.

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Michael D. Dodd et al., «The Political Left Rolls with the Good and the Political Right Confronts the Bad: Connecting Physiology and Cognition to Preferences,» Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367 (2012): 640–649.

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Satoshi Kanasawa, «Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives,» Psychology Today, March 22, 2010, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives.

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Dahlia Schweitzer, Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018).

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My interview with Dahlia Schweitzer can be streamed at https://esweku.org/track/2411461/chris-begley-w-dahlia-schweitzer.

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Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (New York: Penguin Books, 2009).

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M. Siegel et al., «The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide Rates in Suburban and Rural Areas Compared to Large Cities in the United States, 1991–2016,» Journal of Rural Health 36, no. 2 (March 2020): 255–265, https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12387; Michael Siegel et al., «The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide and Suicide Deaths in the USA, 1991–2016: A Panel Study,» Journal of General Internal Medicine 34 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-04922-x/; Maura Ewing, «Do Right-to-Carry Gun Laws Make States Safer?» Atlantic, June 24, 2017.

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Robert Klemko, «Behind the Armor: Men Seek ‘Purpose’ in Protecting Property Despite Charges of Racism,» Washington Post, October 5, 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/national/behind-the-armor-men-seek-purpose-in-protecting-property-despite-charges-of-racism/2020/10/05/b8496fec-001e-11eb-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html/.

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Safia Samee Ali, «Where Protesters Go, Armed Militias, Vigilantes Likely to Follow with Little to Stop Them,» NBC News, September 1, 2020, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/where-protesters-go-armed-militias-vigilantes-likely-follow-little-stop-n1238769/.

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Timothy Knowlton, Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2010).

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For an extensive discussion and comparison of Amazonian religious narratives, see Lawrence E. Sullivan, Icanchu’s Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions (New York: Macmillan, 1988). For some discussion on Native American mythology, see Ella E. Clark, Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953).

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William L. Moran, «Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood,» Biblica 52, no. 1 (1971): 51–61.

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Andrew George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); Joan Goodnick Westenholz and Jeffrey H. Tigay, «The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic,» Journal of the American Oriental Society 104, no. 2 (1984): 370–372, https://doi.org/10.2307/602207.

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Stephanie Mencimer, «Evangelicals Love Donald Trump for Many Reasons, but One of Them Is Especially Terrifying: End Times,» Mother Jones, January 23, 2020, www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/evangelicals-are-anticipating-the-end-of-the-world-and-trump-is-listening/.

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Matthew A. Sutton, American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qdt92.

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Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017).

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John Fea et al., «Evangelicalism and Politics,» The American Historian, Religion and Politics, November 2018, www.oah.org/tah/issues/2018/november/evangelicalism-and-politics/.

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Audrey Farley, «The Apocalyptic Ideas Influencing Pence and Pompeo Could Also Power the Left,» Washington Post, January 28, 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/28/apocalyptic-ideas-influencing-pence-pompeo-could-also-power-left/.

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Drollinger’s views are available through multiple publications of Capitol Ministries at capmin.org, including «Better Understanding the Believer’s Future Judgment,» Members Bible Study, March 21, 2016, http://capmin.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Better-Understanding-Believers-Future-Judgment.pdf.

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Brandon Gaille, «14 Spectacular James Watt Quotes,» BrandonGaille.com (blog), November 23, 2016, https://brandongaille.com/14-spectacular-james-watt-quotes/.

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Dale Russakoff, «James Watt and the Wages of Influence,» Washington Post, May 4, 1989; Michael Lacey, «The Earth’s Storm Troopers,» Phoenix New Times, August 7, 1991.

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Andy Willis, «I, Too, Have a Christian Perspective and I Think Coal Deserves More Respect,» Lexington Herald-Leader August 28, 2020.

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Karla Ward, «‘Take a Step Back.’ Beshear’s Plan to Quarantine Easter Churchgoers Draws Fire from GOP,» Lexington Herald-Leader, April 11, 2020.

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Catherine Wessinger, «Millennial Glossary,» in The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, ed. Catherine Wessinger (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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Eric D. Miller, «Apocalypse Now? The Relevance of Religion for Beliefs About the End of the World,» Journal of Beliefs & Values 33 (2012): 111–115.

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Emma Green, «How Mike Pence’s Marriage Became Fodder for the Culture Wars,» Atlantic, March 30, 2017, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/pence-wife-billy-graham-rule/521298/.

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Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir, «Post-Covid Fantasies: An Introduction,» in «Post-Covid Fantasies,» eds. Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir, American Ethnologist, July 27, 2020, https://americanethnologist.org/features/pandemic-diaries/post-covid-fantasies/post-covid-fantasies-an-introduction

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Christopher Begley, «Prepping,» in «Post-Covid Fantasies,»