Okay again apologies for lack of quick response, work is what it is.

Now if you meant to "debunk the popular evangelical notion that spiritual warfare happens in the enclave of bindings demons by prescribed incantations." then you shouldn't have added "the Frank Peretti embellishments."

And I'm sorry if your going to add "spiritual warfare" to the story your going to have to deal with the spiritual beliefs or lack there of the characters as expressed by Harper Lee.

I could just as well grab H. Rider Haggard's She and impose into the text the same concepts that you are espousing completely ignoring the whole reincarnation/transmigration of the soul that Rider puts forth not to mention the social Darwinian undertones.

Actually I'd use MacDonald's Curdie stories before I used something like She but that is beside the point you have to interact with Lee's actual world that she's created with Mockingbird or your being disingenuous to the story.

Peter

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo