End of days : essays on the apocalypse from antiquity to modernity /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2009.
Description:	viii, 385 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	End of the world. End of the world.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7707047

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Other authors / contributors:	Kinane, Karolyn. Ryan, Michael A.
ISBN:	9780786442041 (softcover : alk. paper) 0786442042 (softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The idea of the annihilation of life is a culturally universal concept. The first half of the book invites readers to explore ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern popular conceptions of the apocalypse. The second half focuses on the continuance of apocalyptic expectations and how they are understood within the realms of politics and popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Teaching the End of Days: Medieval Meets Modern Apocalypse in the Classroom
Part I. Development and Dissemination
Ancient Visions: The Roots of Judeo-Christian Apocalypse
Beatus of Liébana: Medieval Spain and the Othering of Islam
"Seeing" the Apocalyptic City in the Fourteenth Century
Social Upheaval and the English Doomsday Plays
Flight from the Apocalypse: Protestants, Puritans and the Great Migration
J. Edmestone Barnes, a Jamaican Apocalyptic Visionary in the Early Twentieth Century
"Tidings out of the East": World War I, the Eastern Question and British Millennialism
Nazi End Times: The Third Reich as Millennial Reich
Part II. Political and Popular
Protestant Evangelicals and U.S. Policy Towards Israel
At the Edge of Tomorrow: Apocalypticism and Science Fiction
"A Human Incarnate": Puritans and Parody in Good Omens
The End-Times Narratives of the American Far-Right
The Left Behind Series and Its Place Within the American Evangelical Subculture
Gaming Armageddon: Leaving Behind Race, Class and Gender
Apocalyptic Thought in UFO-Based Religions
Zombie Apocalypse: Plague and the End of the World in Popular Culture
About the Contributors
Index

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