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