Apocalypse
Subtitle: from antiquity to the empire of modernity
By: John R. Hall.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780745645094; 9780745645087
Subjects: Apocalypse in literature -- Comparative studies; End of the world -- Comparative studies
Genres: Comparative studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeing through the Apocalypse; title: The ancient origins of history and the apocalypse; title: Medieval Christendom and its others; title: Apocalypse re-formed; title: Modernity and the apocalyptic; title: Radical Islam and the globalized Apocalypse; title: The last Apocalypse?