Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world / Anthony F. Aveni.

By:

Aveni, Anthony F

Publisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016Description: pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781607324706 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

001.9 23

LOC classification:

BL501 .A94 2016

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.