Existential threats : American apocalyptic beliefs in the technological era

Americans 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 dispensa...
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Vox, Lisa [verfasserIn]

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E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press ; 2017

© 2017

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Schlagwörter:

Americans, Attitudes, History, 20th century

Christianity and culture, History, 20th century, United States

End of the world, Forecasting

End of the world

Eschatology, Forecasting

Eschatology

American History.

American Studies.

Religion.

Religious Studies.

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century

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1 Online-Ressource

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ISBN:

978-0-8122-9401-9

DOI / URN:

10.9783/9780812294019

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1659397855

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