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Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel” Reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

September 21, 2025

Los Angeles Review of Books

Mark Brockway


The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics (MIT Press, 2025), co-authored by Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science, was reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

“This is a transcendent, boundary-breaking work about ‘the need to recognize, decode, and resist demonological messages,’” says Peter B. Kaufman, associate director of development at MIT Open Learning, adding, “As the authors have written quite presciently, ‘the push to translate shadow gospel bombast into bureaucracy is a long-term policy goal for conservative demonologists.’” 

Read the full review via the Los Angeles Review of Books website.


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