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Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather

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One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition, but in America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. In this groundbreaking history, Peter J. Thuesen traces the primal connections between weather and religion in the United States. He shows that tornadoes and other storms have repeatedly drawn Americans into ...

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Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather 2020, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190680282

Hardcover