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Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science, and America's obsession with the end of the world / Anthony Aveni.
- Title
- Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science, and America's obsession with the end of the world / Anthony Aveni.
- Author
- Aveni, Anthony F.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
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- Description
- xv, 252 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Aveni traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting the apocalypse. He explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop with reference to a broader historical trajectory, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past"--
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1: Episode 1, October 22, 1844. Millerites and the biblical end of the world; A brief history of apocalyptic thinking in the west -- Part 2: American apocalypse. From columbus to the great awakenings; Fin de siecle secular perfectionism; Spiritualism and the veiled synthesis of science and religion -- Part 3: New age religion and science. The age of aquarius; Techno-angels of the alien advent; Resurgent christian dispensationalism and the end of time in popular media; Astronomical world age theories resurrected -- Part 4: Episode 2, December 21, 2012. The fathers of Y12 prophecy; 2012 and the perennial philosophy; Ancient galactic wisdom and 2012 mayanism.
- ISBN
- 9781607324706
- 1607324709
- 9781607324713 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015030348
- OCLC
- 926050331
- SCSB-12276691
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library