LEADER 03835nam 22005655 450 001 9910829896003321 005 20170630101125.0 010 $a0-8122-9401-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812294019 035 $a(CKB)3710000001363124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4857582 035 $a(DE-B1597)481227 035 $a(OCoLC)987775888 035 $a(OCoLC)992470941 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812294019 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001363124 100 $a20170630d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aExistential Threats $eAmerican Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era /$fLisa Vox 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (283 pages) 311 $a0-8122-4919-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tChapter 1. Secularizing the Apocalypse -- $tChapter 2. Race, Technology, and the Apocalypse -- $tChapter 3. Postnuclear Fantasies -- $tChapter 4. Spaceship Earth -- $tChapter 5. The Politics of Science and Religion -- $tChapter 6. Postapocalyptic American Identity -- $tChapter 7. Post-9/ 11 Despair -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAmericans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse. Will the world end through nuclear war, environmental degradation, and declining biodiversity? Or, perhaps, through the second coming of Christ, rapture of the faithful, and arrival of the Antichrist-a set of beliefs known as dispensationalist premillennialism? These seemingly competing apocalyptic fantasies are not as dissimilar as we might think. In fact, Lisa Vox argues, although these secular and religious visions of the end of the world developed independently, they have converged to create the landscape of our current apocalyptic imagination.In Existential Threats, Vox assembles a wide range of media-science fiction movies, biblical tractates, rapture fiction-to develop a critical history of the apocalyptic imagination from the late 1800s to the present. Apocalypticism was once solely a religious ideology, Vox contends, which has secularized in response to increasing technological and political threats to American safety. Vox reads texts ranging from Christianity Today articles on ecology and the atomic bomb to Dr. Strangelove, and from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, demonstrating along the way that conservative evangelicals have not been as resistant to science as popularly believed and that scientists and science writers have unwittingly reproduced evangelical eschatological themes and scenarios in their own works. Existential Threats argues that American apocalypticism reflects and propagates our ongoing debates over the authority of science, the place of religion, uses of technology, and America's evolving role in global politics. 606 $aEnd of the world 606 $aEnd of the world$xForecasting 606 $aEschatology 606 $aEschatology$xForecasting 606 $aAmericans$xAttitudes$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChristianity and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEnd of the world. 615 0$aEnd of the world$xForecasting. 615 0$aEschatology. 615 0$aEschatology$xForecasting. 615 0$aAmericans$xAttitudes$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory 676 $a306.0973 700 $aVox$b Lisa$01665932 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829896003321 996 $aExistential Threats$94024901 997 $aUNINA