Antonio DiRenzo delivered the keynote address, "And the Violent Bear It Away: Flannery
O'Connor and the Menace of Apocalyptic Terrorism," at a national
conference called Flannery O'Connor and the Age of Terror in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, October 5 to 7. The keynote detailed the history of violent
fundamentalist millenarian sects from the fourth century to the present.
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