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Mormonism, Scientology, Nation of Islam, original Sandinismo: is Wokeness part of the lineage of American Space Religion?

The particular history of Jansenist secularization in Quebec and the Social Gospel in English Canada prepared the ground for our extraordinary Wokeness.

This is the first part of a two-parter about the historical and theological underpinnings of Canada's unique susceptibility to Wokeness.

Some people mistakenly call Wokeness "cultural Marxism" because it organizes the world into a binary. But that binary isn't Marxian at all. It is far more like the Kingdom of Peace/Kingdom of War Islamic idea or, closer to the mark, Manicheism's Sons of Light/Sons of Darkness.

This lecture was requested by one of the students and caused the remaining lectures to be reorganized. It is the only lecture that does not contain a religious history component. Instead, it engages with movements in the present that are oppositional to Wokeness, radical feminism, black conservative intellectuals from the Thomas Sowell tradition and, in Canada, convoyists.

Universities came into being in response to excessive orthodoxy in higher education. Could the same thing be happening again eight hundred years later?

Wokeness seeks to resolve a central paradox of Protestant Christianity: the relationship between its two most prized emotional characteristics, restraint and sensitivity.

Wokeness offers what appears to be a novel approach to language in religious tradition. But is it novel?

Postmodernism is often blamed for the Woke moment, and unfairly so. Nevertheless, there is a complex relationship between the French poststructuralists, Wokeness and American traditions of popular literacy.

This class was on self-harm and asceticism in the Western tradition. In the discussion portion, it turned into a lively discussion of drag.

The idea of progress is a theory of sacred time based on postmillennial evangelicalism. Wokeness is one of its descendants.

This class elaborates on my essay on the Donatist movement, in which I explain points of resemblance between modern Wokeness and the new brand of orthodox Christianity we associate with Constantine, the Council of Nicea and the Donatist Crisis of the fourth century.