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Apocalyptic Anxiety : Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World /
"Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader histo...
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Boulder, Colorado :
University Press of Colorado,
[2016]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1: Episode 1, October 22, 1844. Millerites and the biblical end of the world ; A brief history of apocalyptic thinking in the west -- Part 2: American Apocalypse. From Columbus to the great awakenings ; Fin de siecle secular perfectionism ; Spiritualism and the veiled synthesis of science and religion -- Part 3: New age religion and science. The age of Aquarius ; Techno-angels of the alien advent ; Resurgent Christian dispensationalism and the end of time in popular media ; Astronomical world age theories resurrected -- Part 4: Episode 2, December 21, 2012. The fathers of Y12 prophecy ; 2012 and the perennial philosophy ; Ancient galactic wisdom and 2012 Mayanism -- COnclusion: Contrasting the signs of the times. | |
| 520 | |a "Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader historical framework, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past. The book begins with the Millerites, the nineteenth-century religious sect of Pastor William Miller, who used biblical calculations to predict October 22, 1844 as the date for the Second Advent of Christ. Aveni also examines several other religious and philosophical movements that have centered on apocalyptic themes--Christian millennialism, the New Age movement and the Age of Aquarius, and various other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious sects, concluding with a focus on the Maya mystery of 2012 and the contemporary prophets who connected the end of the world as we know it with the overturning of the Maya calendar. Apocalyptic Anxiety places these seemingly never-ending stories of the world's end in the context of American history. This fascinating exploration of the deep historical and cultural roots of America's voracious appetite for apocalypse will appeal to students of American history and the histories of religion and science, as well as lay readers interested in American culture and doomsday prophecies."--Provided by publisher. | ||
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