In the cultural productions of contemporary Evangelical communities, a surfeit of cute—that is, infantilized and unthreatening—animal figures participate in and bolster a sacrificial logic of substitution that in turn underwrites a mode of violent apocalyptic thinking to which the secular public sphere is far from immune.

Issue Section:
Animals and Performance
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