‘assemblages’ of media, churches, cultural consciousness, and a ‘spiral of resonances’ that produce the Evangelical capitalist resonance machine
Connolly uses the work of Weber, Deleuze, and St. Augustine for his philosophical argument in order to establish how religious beliefs such as the Protestant work ethic and issues of providence in creation are the basis for the resonances that these beliefs have with the capitalist system.
Does the book really suggest that all we need is more social contact? Wright gives us the essential or nothing option -- but isn't religion working with other things. What about the Tea Party?