Existential Threats : : American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era / / Lisa Vox.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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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