Marks of the Beast : : The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity / / Glenn W. Shuck.
The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins has become a popular culture phenomenon, selling an astonishing 40 million copies to date. These novels, written by two well-known evangelical Christians, depict the experiences of those "left behind" in the aftermath of the Rapture...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: About American Evangelicals
- Introduction: First Words on Last Things
- 1 Signs of the Times: The Dispensational Background of Evangelical Prophecy Belief
- 2 Reluctant Rebels: The Left Behind Novels and the Politics of Evangelical Identity
- 3 The Emergence of the Network Culture/Beast System
- 4 Technologies of Transcendence: “Beast Religion” and the Deification/Demonization of the Network Culture
- 5 Marks of the Beast: The Struggle for Evangelical Identity
- 6 Beast, Inc.: Evangelical Resistance and the Internalization of Evil
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author