Apocalyptic Anxiety
Subtitle: Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781607324706
Subjects: Eschatology; Apocalyptic literature; End of the world; Religion and science; United states, religion
Description: "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"--