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Apocalyptic Anxiety
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Author : Anthony Aveni
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-05-02
Apocalyptic Anxiety written by Anthony Aveni and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with History categories.
Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture’s obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader historical framework, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past. The book begins with the Millerites, the nineteenth-century religious sect of Pastor William Miller, who used biblical calculations to predict October 22, 1844 as the date for the Second Advent of Christ. Aveni also examines several other religious and philosophical movements that have centered on apocalyptic themes—Christian millennialism, the New Age movement and the Age of Aquarius, and various other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious sects, concluding with a focus on the Maya mystery of 2012 and the contemporary prophets who connected the end of the world as we know it with the overturning of the Maya calendar. Apocalyptic Anxiety places these seemingly never-ending stories of the world’s end in the context of American history. This fascinating exploration of the deep historical and cultural roots of America’s voracious appetite for apocalypse will appeal to students of American history and the histories of religion and science, as well as lay readers interested in American culture and doomsday prophecies.
Anxiety A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
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Author : Jack Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-28
Anxiety A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller written by Jack Hunt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-28 with categories.
The epic post-apocalyptic series continues... In Phobia, you experienced the collapse of society as a mysterious outbreak of a highly lethal virus ravaged the globe and thousands perished from the contagious illness. Now Frank must make impossible choices and risk everything in order to survive. He was sure that escaping to his island would mean safety for him and the survivors. But a dangerous adversary has other plans. Survival has just begun. Frank Talbot must decide how far he's willing to go in order to survive, even if it means taking a life. Friendships will be made. Loyalties will be tested. All mercy is gone. Desperation breeds anxiety. Their survival depends on fighting back - and they're determined to survive.
Phobia A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
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Author : Jack Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-12-22
Phobia A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller written by Jack Hunt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-22 with Obsessive-compulsive disorder categories.
For reclusive germophobe, Frank Talbot, dealing with his crippling fear of contamination and germs has always been a challenge, but now he may have no choice. After a mysterious outbreak of a highly lethal virus ravages the globe and hundreds succumb to the contagious illness, the U.S government instigates a cordon sanitaire in major cities to contain it from spreading rapidly around the nation. At the onset of the epidemic, his ex-wife, Kate, an epidemiologist for the CDC, warns Frank and their daughter, Ella to prepare for the worst. The only hope of survival is retreating to their cottage on one of the isolated islands in the St. Lawrence River. Easy for Frank, he's already there but when his daughter suffers a major setback, Frank is forced out of his comfort zone. As riots ensue and electrical fences are breached, the H9N3 Agora Virus is unleashed and becomes unstoppable. Transportation systems cease, grocery stores are looted, hospitals become infectious morgues, and chaos erupts. Now his greatest fear is about to become his reality. Frank must embark on a dangerous journey into the heart of an infected country, to rescue his daughter before society collapses. Will ruthless men stop him, or his own fear?
The Last Myth
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Author : Matthew Barrett Gross
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2012-03-06
The Last Myth written by Matthew Barrett Gross and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Social Science categories.
During the first dozen years of the twenty-first century, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 percent of Americans believe that the events foretold in the book of Revelation will come true. But many secular readers also seem hungry for catastrophe and have propelled books about peak oil, global warming, and the end of civilization into bestsellers. How did we come to live in a culture obsessed by the belief that the end is near? The Last Myth explains why apocalyptic beliefs are surging within the American mainstream today. Demonstrating that our expectation of the end of the world is a surprisingly recent development in human thought, the book reveals the profound influence of apocalyptic thinking on America’s past, present, and future.
Apocalyptic Dread
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Author : Kirsten Moana Thompson
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Apocalyptic Dread written by Kirsten Moana Thompson and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard's notion of dread—that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future—Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film's particular "monster," whether human, demonic, or eschatological.
The End Of The World
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Author : Ulrich H. J. Körtner
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
The End Of The World written by Ulrich H. J. Körtner and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Religion categories.
In this book, Ulrich Kortner addresses the issue of apocalyptic anxiety by offering a theological and philosophical evaluation of the apocalyptic. In particular, Kortner looks at how theology, responding in pastoral sensitivity, should deal with apocalyptic fears and anxieties. Kortner concludes that real meaning and hope for the world is possible only after the world's inhabitants deal constructively with the stark reality of the world's end.
Eco Anxiety In Nuclear Holocaust Fiction And Climate Fiction
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Author : Dominika Oramus
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-07
Eco Anxiety In Nuclear Holocaust Fiction And Climate Fiction written by Dominika Oramus and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction: Doomsday Clock Narratives demonstrates that disaster fiction— nuclear holocaust and climate change alike— allows us to unearth and anatomise contemporary psychodynamics and enables us to identify pretraumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts. These Doomsday Clock Narratives argue that earth’s demise is soon and certain. They are set after some catastrophe and depict people waiting for an even worse catastrophe to come. References to geology are particularly important— in descriptions of the landscape, the emphasis falls on waste and industrial bric- a- brac, which is seen through the eyes of a future, posthuman archaeologist. Their protagonists have the uncanny feeling that the countdown has already started, and they are coping with both traumatic memories and pretraumatic stress. Readings of novels by Walter M. Miller, Nevil Shute, John Christopher, J. G. Ballard, George Turner, Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki, and Yoko Tawada demonstrate that the authors are both indebted to a century- old tradition and inventively looking for new ways of expressing the pretraumatic stress syndrome common in contemporary society. This book is written for an academic audience (postgraduates, researchers, and academics) specialising in British Literature, American Literature, and Science Fiction Studies.
Apocalypse
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Author : John Michael Greer
language : en
Publisher: Quercus Books
Release Date : 2012
Apocalypse written by John Michael Greer and has been published by Quercus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Apocalypse in literature categories.
"The ancient Egyptians would have known it as the sixth day of Pachon. The Mayans named it 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. To us it is 21 December, 2012. On this day, it is said, the world will come to an end. This is not the first time we've been told that our time is up. And - touch wood - it probably won't be the last. Religious and secular, past and present - Apocalypse covers each and every one of our prophesized dooms: featuring asteroids, Antichrists, solar flares, Singularities, Utopias, UFOs, Zoroastrians and Zapotecs, to mention but a small few. The result is a thorough history of one the most fascinating threads of our cultural existence: spanning from the first warnings of our ancient ancestors, to the contemporary (yet equally glum) forecasts for our future."--amazon.com
There S More To Fear Than Fear Itself Fears And Anxieties In The 21st Century
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Author : Izabela Dixon
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
There S More To Fear Than Fear Itself Fears And Anxieties In The 21st Century written by Izabela Dixon and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Social Science categories.
The Apocalyptic Anxiety Of American Evangelicalism As Seen Through Left Behind And Tim Lahaye S Programme For The Preservation Of Evangelical Identity
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Author : Alfonso Odilon Espinosa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Apocalyptic Anxiety Of American Evangelicalism As Seen Through Left Behind And Tim Lahaye S Programme For The Preservation Of Evangelical Identity written by Alfonso Odilon Espinosa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.