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Title:

The end all around us : apocalyptic texts and popular culture / edited by John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport.

Publisher:

Equinox,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--Religious aspects.
End of the world.
Populaire cultuur.
Einde der tijden.
Religieuze aspecten.

Other Authors:

Walliss, John, 1974-
Newport, Kenneth G. C.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism / Gary Baines -- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? / Keith Kahn-Harris -- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism / Christopher Partridge -- Apocalypse at the millennium / John Walliss -- "The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films / Lee Quinby -- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime / Mick Broderick -- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture / Jennie Chapman -- "The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction / Roslyn Weaver -- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media / Robert Glenn Howard -- Index.

Series:

Millennialism and society

ISBN:

1845532627 (pb)
9781845532628 (pb)
1845532619 (hb)
9781845532611 (hb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)253838702

LCCN:

2008039137

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)