On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands streamed to Washington DC to speak out against what they saw as a fraudulent election that would unfairly elect Joe Biden as President and oust Donald Trump. Among the protestors were representatives of violent organizations, including Christian Nationalists, QAnon, and white supremacist hate groups who would proceed to commit domestic terrorism by storming the Capitol building in search of Congresspersons to attack, punish, and even kill. This lecture will explain the apocalyptic roots of radical right extremism to understand what makes the ideology of violent extremism appealing to so many, what we can expect in the future, and how we can finally begin to stem the cycle of radicalization and heal our nation.

Featured speaker Dr. Frances Flannery of James Madison University is currently a Trintiy Longroom Hub Humanities Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin, 2020-21 (extended to May 2022).  She is author and editor of over fifty-five publications large and small, including the co-edited Biblical Wisdon:  Then and Now (Routledge, 2021), Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism:  Countering the Radical Mindset (Routledge, 2016), the co-edited The Bible in Political Debate:  What Does It Really Say? (Bloomsbury/T&T Clar, 2016), the co-edited Experientia, Vol. 1:  Inquiry into Relitious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity (Brill/SBL 2008), and Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests:  Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras (Brill 2004).

Access a recording of the live lecture here:  https://olemiss.zoom.us/rec/share/HY-lYtdiFXJ89_yp1LiDjLf-vCsY6i1beA0mPC0VHQLmm3mSilkrVkOYdk2nN4e6.I6Z_eUUjhN3_w2jT