Rapture culture
Subtitle: left behind in Evangelical America
By: Amy Johnson Frykholm.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: LaHaye, Tim F; Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism; Protestantism and literature -- History -- 20th century; Antichrist -- History of doctrines -- 20th century; Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism; Rapture (Christian eschatology); End of the world in literature; Evangelicalism in literature; Second Advent in literature; Eschatology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rapture in America; title: Networks of readers, networks of meaning; title: The margins of left behind's readership; title: "I'm a survivor and he's a survivor"; title: Reading the signs of the times; title: Making prophecy live; title: Witness to the Apocalypse; title: Fear, desire, and the dynamics of left behind.