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Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bentThe world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse - cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios - in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories - from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead - and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.
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I spend most of my time reading, writing, teaching, drinking, and taking meetings. I teach politics and international studies at Redeemer University College, a Toronto-area, publicly chartered, liberal arts university. I'm also Director of Redeemer's Centre for Christian Scholarship, which connects the top tier scholarship of the Christian academy to big questions and ideas of public concern.
I fellow around a bit, including as an editorial fellow at The Review of Faith & International Affairs, a fellow at The Center for Public Justice (D.C.) and as a blogger at the Arc of the Universe, at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Civil & Human Rights.
