The University Academics Admission & Aid Athletics Campus Life Events Library

End Of Days : Essays On The Apocalypse From Antiquity To Modernity

  • End Of Days : Essays On The Apocalypse From Antiquity To Modernity

  • Attribution

    edited by Karolyn Kinane and Michael A. Ryan

  • Publication Details

    Book, McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2009

  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     FAC PUB DISPLAY (MAIN)  BL503 .E53 2009  AVAILABLE
     SPINELLI ROOM  BL503 .E53 2009 c.2 ASK REF DESK

    New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
    View record in LOLA catalog

  • Description

    This book explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society, bringing together 17 essays which explore both the influence and innovation of apocalyptic ideas from classical Greek and Roman writings to the foreign policies of the contemporary United States. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Notes

    • "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

  • Contents

    • Introduction / Karolyn Kinane and Michael A. Ryan
    • Teaching the end of days : medieval meets modern apocalypse in the classroom / Brett Edward Whalen
    • Development and dissemination
    • Ancient visions : the roots of Judeo-Christian apocalypse / Casey Starnes
    • Beatus of Liébana : medieval Spain and the othering of Islam / Kevin R. Poole
    • "Seeing" the apocalyptic city in the fourteenth century / Tessa Morrison
    • Social upheaval and the English doomsday plays / Lisa LeBlanc
    • Flight from the apocalypse : Protestants, Puritans, and the great migration / Carmen Gómez-Galisteo
    • J. Edmestone Barnes, a Jamaican apocalyptic visionary in the early twentieth century / Richard Smith
    • "Tidings out of the east" : World War I, the eastern question and British millennialism / Eric Michael Reisenauer
    • Nazi end times : the Third Reich as millennial reich / David Redles
    • Political and popular
    • Protestant Evangelicals and U.S. policy towards Israel / Husam Mohamad
    • At the edge of tomorrow : apocalypticism and science fiction / Lorenzo DiTommaso
    • A human incarnate : Puritans and parody in good omens / Therese-Marie Meyer
    • The end-times narratives of the American far-right / Johann Pautz
    • The left behind series and its place within the American Evangelical subculture / Nancy A. Schaefer
    • Gaming Armageddon : leaving behind race, class, and gender / Evelyn Stiller
    • Apocalyptic thought in UFO-based religions / Benjamin E. Zeller
    • Zombie apocalypse : plague and the end of the world in popular culture / Rikk Mulligan

  • ISBN

    • 9780786442041
    • 0786442042

  • LCCN

  • Open Library ID

Related items

Powered by bSuite.

Post a Comment or Send a Message

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*
Please make my comment private!

Please note: Lamson Library serves the Plymouth State University community. We do not sell the books in our collection.

Comments should show a courteous regard for the presence of other voices in the discussion. We reserve the right to edit or delete comments that do not adhere to this standard.

Lamson Library is powered by Scriblio.
Plymouth State University. 17 High Street. Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264-1595
© 2000-2009. All rights Reserved.