Excellent birthday gift, thanks to Carolyn for this delightful gem of a book! Vagacs is more then a fan of U2, he is a follower of their music and their theology. Religious Nuts Political Fanatics isn’t an evolutionary overview of U2’s spiritual songs; rather it alerts the reader to the sweeping Christological and Eschatological themes found throughout U2’s considerable body of work.
A vibrant Christ-centered theology emerges from the pages of Religious Nuts Political Fanatics. The title comes from a lyrical line in the song ‘New York’, from the All That You Can’t Leave Behind -2000 album. I found Chapter Four, The Babylonian State of Zooropa, to be especially compelling. This chapter explored the three albums released in the 1990’s and the emotional and spiritual discontent found within the lyrics. Achtung Baby -1991, Zooropa -1993, and Pop -1997. Just as the Babylonian exile caused many faithful to abandon God, one can argue that U2’s 1990’s releases reflected the bands spiritual exile.
Religious Nuts Political Fanatics is a great addition to the U2 scholarship canon. A great companion book which explores the personal side of U2’s theological underpinnings is Steve Stockman’s, Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2.
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