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, 266 pages) Contents Secularizing the Apocalypse -- Race, Technology, and the Apocolypse -- Postnuclear Fantasies -- Spaceship Earth -- The Politics of Science and Religion -- Postapocalyptic American Identity -- Post 9/11 Despair 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 and index Notes Print version record Subject Americans -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century Christianity and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century End of the world -- Forecasting End of the world Eschatology -- Forecasting Eschatology Americans -- Attitudes. Christianity and culture. End of the world. Eschatology. United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 0812294017 electronic book 9780812294019 electronic book

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