Existential Threats : American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era /

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Americans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse. Will the world end through nuclear war, environmental degradation, and declining biodiversity? Or, perhaps, through the second coming of Christ, rapture of the faithful, and arrival of the Antichrist-a set of beliefs known as dispensa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vox, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Temas:
Americans > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
Christianity and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
End of the world > Forecasting.
End of the world.
Eschatology > Forecasting.
Eschatology.
American History.
American Studies.
Religion.
Religious Studies.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Secularizing the Apocalypse
  • Chapter 2. Race, Technology, and the Apocalypse
  • Chapter 3. Postnuclear Fantasies
  • Chapter 4. Spaceship Earth
  • Chapter 5. The Politics of Science and Religion
  • Chapter 6. Postapocalyptic American Identity
  • Chapter 7. Post-9/ 11 Despair
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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