Existential threats : American apocalyptic beliefs in the technological era /

In Existential Threats, Lisa Vox explores the growth of dispensationalist premillennialism alongside scientific understandings of the end of the world and contends that these two allegedly competing visions have converged to create an American apocalyptic imagination.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vox, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Subjects:
1900-1999
End of the world.
End of the world > Forecasting.
Eschatology.
Eschatology > Forecasting.
Americans > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
Christianity and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Fin du monde.
Fin du monde > Prévision.
Christianisme et civilisation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Americans > Attitudes
Christianity and culture
End of the world
Eschatology
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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