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Author Vox, Lisa., author

Title Existential threats : American apocalyptic beliefs in the technological era / Lisa Vox
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 283 pages)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index
Notes In English
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Subject 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
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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812294019
0812294017