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Americans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse. Will the world end through nuclear war, environmental degradation, and declining biodiversity? Or, perhaps, through the second coming of Christ, rapture of the faithful, and arrival of the Antichrist - a set of beliefs known as dispensationalist premillennialism? These seemingly competing apocalyptic fantasies are not as dissimilar as we might think. In fact, Lisa Vox argues, although these secular and religious visions of the end of the world developed independently, they have converged to create the landscape of our current apocalyptic imagination.In Existential Threats, Vox assembles a wide range of media - science fiction movies, biblical tractates, rapture fiction - to develop a critical history of the apocalyptic imagination from the late 1800s to the present.
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I live in Atlanta, where I write, research, and teach a variety of college history classes. My areas of specialization are the US history of ideas, science, and religion.
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