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Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 03:36:22 PM EST
Dominionism is starting to show up in academic publications.
A couple of days ago I decided to check again and see what was available about dominionism among peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.  There are a few articles now showing up when I do a specialized search (such as used by schools).  I tried this maybe three years ago and got only a couple of articles, which weren't of specific interest to me.

Here is the list in a Bibliographic type format:

Alex Schulman (2010). Kulturkampf and Spite: The Rehnquist Court and American "Theoconservatism". Law and Literature,, 22, 48-75.
Comaroff, J. L. (2009). Reflections on the Rise of Legal Theology. Social Analysis, 53, 193-216.
Ellis, C. & Irvine, L. (2010). Reproducing Dominion: Emotional Apprenticeship in the 4-H Youth Livestock Program. Society & Animals, 18, 21-39.
Hudson, G. (2009). Dominionism and Epistemology. Conference Papers -- Midwestern Political Science Association, , 1.
Huet-Vaugun, E. (2007). A danger to democracy. National Catholic Reporter, 43, 5-6.
Maltby, P. (2008). FUNDAMENTALIST DOMINION, POSTMODERN ECOLOGY. Ethics & the Environment, 13, 119-141.
Matthew N Lyons (2003). Fragmented Nationalism: Right-Wing Responses to September 11 in Historical Context. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,, 127, 377-418.
Scott Coltrane (2001). Marketing the Marriage "Solution": Misplaced Simplicity in the Politics of Fatherhood: 2001 Presidential Address to the Pacific Sociological Association. Sociological Perspectives,, 44, 387-418.

This is encouraging.  I know a few colleagues are aware of dominionism and the danger, and finding that there are people starting to research and discuss the topic in peer-reviewed journals is good news.

Note: one article is an interview through a news service, but I encountered it a couple of times, suggesting that it is being used and probably referenced in other topics.

Dominionism and Epistemology (Hudson 2009) is one of them that I would really like to read, but I would have to arrange an interlibrary loan for it and cannot do so right now.  Maybe later, if/when things improve...




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If you have a chance, it would be very nice if you, or someone else here, could also dig up lists of academic publications not just about "dominionism" per se but also about the Pentecostal/Charismatic/new-Apostolic wing of Christianity in general, especially its "spiritual warfare" doctrines and related practices such as "spiritual mapping."  Also it would be interesting to find out if there has been any academic work about the "Seven Mountains Mandate" in particular, or about the trends in eschatology that Rachel Tabachnick has documented here on Talk To Action.

Recently a religion scholar I'm in contact with has told me that there is now quite a bit of funding available for the scholarly study of the Pentecostal/Charismatic and related movements.  It's not his own area of study and he was not able to give me any details, but this is what he has been hearing through the academic grapevine lately.  If true, this is very good news.


by Diane Vera on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 07:22:55 PM EST

...and there has been funding for a number or years. But as far as I'm aware, much of that funding comes from right wing sources and helps finance research which muddies the waters.

by Bruce Wilson on Thu Mar 03, 2011 at 05:38:47 PM EST
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...Look, we know the CIA contracts with Universities a great deal...

Are we sure Dominionism isn't a CIA invention?  It carries with it some of the most carefully constructed mind-control techniques in the world: glossolalia, slain in the spirit, "holy laughter," calls for martyrdom, extreme emotional ecstasy, faith healing, spiritual mapping, spiritual warfare, etc. etc..

I know that the dominionist organization in my town that runs our local branch of the Seven Mountains Plot has several professors at our Community College and California State University working with it.  I'm just not so sure that Academia has an interest in removing a tool they may see as useful, which might explain the silence regarding it.

by OldChaosoftheSun on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 07:37:22 PM EST

I have a problem with the idea of dominionism as a CIA invention, considering the sort of stories I've heard (and studied and taught) regarding fundamentalism in this country.  As an example, read about the Cardiff Giant.  The mind games and attempts to control via religious belief are far older than the CIA.   (Now, I could understand the CIA studying the dominionists to learn new techniques...)

As far as academia and dominionism, well, you should see the nasty battles we get into with the P/D/Fs when we try to discuss topics such as evolution.  We are at polar opposites with them on nearly every topic.  The idea that academia and dominionism are connected cannot be supported, although I do quickly agree that the dominionists are trying to steeplejack the schools.  

Academia and the CIA?  Many of the different organizations regulating the various disciplines have declared working for the military to be a violation of research ethics, and that goes double for the CIA.  Our ethical codes are very strong ( http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethcode.htm is the code I try to follow) and we take such things very seriously.  By the way, I think you'll find the link on the AAA site about using the tools of anthropology to help the military and the decision that practice is unethical.  Often, the heroes in our discipline are the people the CIA do not like!!!  (Yes, I'm mainly talking about my own discipline.)

Dominionism is not an academic tool in any way.  Shoot, if that were the case, I would be having fits and avoiding the schools like I would the plague.

The silence is due to a lack of knowledge and interest for most of the social scientists, combined with the fact that most dominionists have had little direct impact (besides the fight over evolution vs creationism) on people in academia*.  Not only that, but dominionism only surfaced and became known in the last decade or so.  People like us (walkaways) would talk about the treatment we got and people would dismiss us as cranks, and it's only in the last few years that people have started to talk about it seriously and recognize the reality - and seen the commonality of walkaway experiences.  Shoot, I didn't know about dominionism until around seven years ago - in spite of all the things I experienced up to 33 years ago.  Since it's gone unrecognized for as long as it has, it is no wonder that academia hasn't started 'noticing' it until recently.

*- the attitude regarding Pentecostals/Dominionists/Fundamentalists seems to be on the order of "If they want to be stupid, that's their decision.  Just don't disrupt other people when they try to learn!"  


by ArchaeoBob on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 09:06:17 PM EST
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...once said "Religion without science is blind, science without religion is lame."

He is making metaphors that regard a body, and very specific ones as the man was anything but non-specific.  Science occupies the head part of this metaphorical body, and religion is the legs.  Without religion, labor breaks down, people are malcontent, confused and aimless.  With religion, they become subservient, deluded, submissive, more willing to tolerate squalor, etc..  

Some people in Academia take ethics very seriously, others do not.  I already mentioned that the local dominionist organization in my town has several professors at the State University and Community College on payroll.  Interestingly, the churches this oversight organization runs shuns and criticizes higher education in typical form.  

It's a matter of relegating a class of people to tasks that can be performed by people without much knowledge and allowing for them to provide for those who have amassed knowledge.  If all were PhD holders, who would harvest tomatoes?

Yes, the CIA works with Universities.  http://www.cia-on-campus.org/church.html

The APA and AMA only recently in 2005/6ish changed their codes to prohibit working on projects that would violate international law.  But, by and large, Academia is just as concerned with maintaining the standard sociological order as the church is.

I never said Dominionism is an academic tool, it's a sociological tool, and one which could only have been hatched by cunning psychologists and sociologists - especially the neo-Pentecostal strain - which - albeit - has some roots in the early 20th century - but - by and large exists in a monumentally different form today than it did then.

You must recall that simply because something is stated to be unethical does not mean that those in immunized positions of authority will not violate those ethics.  One of the definitions of "Taboo" is something which is permitted for chiefs, kings, and priests, but prohibited for the general populace (like Altar Boys).  

Some of our heros in Academia are despised by the CIA, certainly.  They tend to stand out a lot more than those who stick to the party line.  Of all the professors in the United States, how many can you name as public figures?  I can maybe name 30-40 at the max, and that's after a great deal of college.

An interesting point of fact is, that, when I tried to blow the whistle on the dominionist pedophile ring in my area, professors at the University I was attending assisted with intimidation techniques against me.

As regards the AAA, I have a personal gripe with Kathy Reichs for assisting in some seriously a-typical and illegal interrogation techniques which were employed against me.  I don't know how she came to participate in such actions, but I did write a paper linking monogamous vs. polygamous behavior strictly to the ecology of resources in humans by contrasting gibbons and silverbacks and comparing them to human society in general in one Anthro paper I wrote.  

As for Academic Ethics, the Ethics professor for the Religious Studies Department I attended was notorious for having flings with his female students.

The barrier between education and ignorance must be maintained, both the educated and the ignorant must be satisfied with their position or serious consequences for society would manifest.  

Plato's Cave, my friend, would constitute the essence of the motivation for both Academia and Intelligence Agencies to maintain a code of silence regarding Pentecostalism.  Once a person becomes aware of how much they do not know, they may become insatiably curious.

In addition to having a bunch of primate minions who think their in a spiritual battle against invisible evil forces spying on the community.

by OldChaosoftheSun on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 10:19:23 PM EST
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...point of fact, the anthropology teacher I turned that paper into worked for the man Ted Haggard met with I mention in my diary entry prior to this one.

by OldChaosoftheSun on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 10:29:57 PM EST
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...I'm probably running the risk of overstretching my attempts to find an etymology for Muthee's use of the word "transformation" - but I did come across a very interesting concept called "transformative learning" which apparently entails setting up students for failure repeatedly with the hopes that the more they fail, the better they will learn.  Many people decry this method as abusive and dysfunctional, but I can't think of a better abstract for being raised homeschooled with a paradigm that the whole world was ending, that I was in a holy war against invisible demons, that education was evil, evolution untrue, and that I was responsible for saving all the lost lest I be punished by God for every instance I had a chance to witness but didn't.  If that isn't a recipe for failure, I'm not exactly sure what is.

by OldChaosoftheSun on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 10:38:24 PM EST
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About academic codes of ethics against working with the military and/or CIA:  I think this varies from one discipline to another.  Having been a computer science grad student, I know that there is no such prohibition in either math or computer science.

In the social sciences, I would guess (correct me if I'm wrong) that codes of ethics have gotten stricter over the past half century or so.  CIA research projects like MK-ULTRA did exist and did involve quite a few academics -- although "conspiracy theorists" have greatly exaggerated the scope and significance of such projects.  I also wonder whether, to this day, the code for psychology is as strict, in this regard, as the codes for anthropology and archeology.


by Diane Vera on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 11:09:47 PM EST
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...there are plenty of propaganda and mind-control campaigns by the government in current operation.  A few we know about for sure are using Psy-Ops to brainwash Senators and the Pentagon hiring military contractors to express government positions as their own opinions on Cable News.

Sorry man, I guess you can lump me in with the "Conspiracy Theorists" but there is no way I can look at little kids being told to die for God while praying to a cardboard cutout of Bush in tongues while weeping over abortion and wanting to kill Harry Potter at New Life church in Colorado as anything but a government plot.

by OldChaosoftheSun on Thu Mar 03, 2011 at 04:30:04 AM EST
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As you were a computer science student, you are undoubtedly aware that, for example, C++ is not the language the computer reads, but is a human language designed for effective control of a binary electrical system.  The same can be said of rhetoric's interaction with the human mind.  In no way does anything said by anyone have to be true or even believed to be true by the speaker to be effective in motivating the human mind.

Psychology, in and of itself, is hardly scientific in any meaningful sense of the term.  The DSM is one of the biggest loads of sociological propaganda I've ever laid eyes on.  Certainly there are legitimate psychological issues with physiological causes that we don't understand, but the DSM primarily reduces to being a source code for the proper operation of society with little to no basis in any actual empirical science.  It has replaced demonology in the scope of it's empiricism and functionality.

This, of course, doesn't mean that psychologists are perfectly capable of extrapolating some generalizations and using them to their advantage in the same way religious rhetoricians exploit peoples' ignorance and superstition.  There is a difference between the diagnostic employment of psychology and the warfare employment of it.  Having been severely affected by the latter, I can tell you they most certainly don't have the slightest inclination to treat people respectfully or otherwise and they don't follow a code of ethics when it comes to targeting dissidents.

The problem with the DSM is that they have defined a set of behaviors, classed it as a disease, and then use a checklist of the set of behaviors to diagnose the disease, without ever wondering whether they are pathologizing normal behavior.  It is in the interest of the APA to make as many diseases as possible because then more people will pay their counselors for help and more psychiatrists will prescribe more pills because the AMA works off the DSM.

Just as it is in the Church's interest to manufacture sin, it is in the APA's interest to manufacture disease.  

But, seriously, you don't think this guy was trained by Mossad or the CIA?  He can knock over whole crowds just by hissing and talking softly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkdWA2smAUM

Look - the methods of talk are the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySOkD0EqEFA

It's very sedating, both of them - the former is more powerful because it taps into an underlying mythology already present in the mind.

Oh yeah, as a computer scientist, you might be interested in this potential etymology for Muthee's "Transformations" series:

http://www.amazon.com/Trance-Formations-Neuro-Linguistic-Programm ing-Structure-Hypnosis/dp/0911226230

by OldChaosoftheSun on Thu Mar 03, 2011 at 04:49:43 AM EST
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...I raised hell about the torture which was inflicted upon me for blowing the whistle on a few local churches, they deleted their official website, but left this.  This organization in my area is very much Muthee/Dominionist influenced, and employs several professors on their board of directors from CSUC and was chaired by the former President of the Butte-Glenn Community College District in California.

There's an academic connection to dominionism - you'll have to find the others.  As for my town, it's as clear as ice in the ninth circle - and - of course - I only know the professors on their Board of Directors, not the ones who collaborate otherwise - and it doesn't include the dominionist "ex-pornographer's" instructors, which are many:

http://www.leaderbreakthru.com/pages/the-center-for-transformatio n-studies.php

by OldChaosoftheSun on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 11:13:38 PM EST
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...one look at Bob Larson and some of the other guys, and you have to wonder whether this stuff was coopted and refined by and out of Project Artichoke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x0R-Uy_A9c

by OldChaosoftheSun on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 07:46:33 PM EST


This article is very much intriguing to read. Davidovich Stein Law Group  I think dominionism is interpreted as the tendency of politically active conservative peoples to try to control the government. They have expanded this to justify the theocratic rule of society.

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