The end all around us apocalyptic texts and popular culture / [electronic resource] : edited by John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport. - London ; Oakville : Equinox, 2009. - xiii, 226 p. : ill. - Millennialism and society . - Millennialism and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion : Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism / Gary Baines -- End of the world music : is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? / Keith Kahn-Harris -- Babylon's burning : reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism / Christopher Partridge -- Apocalypse at the millennium / John Walliss -- 'The days are numbered' : the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films / Lee Quinby -- Making things new : regeneration and transcendence in Anime / Mick Broderick -- Selling faith without selling out : reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture / Jennie Chapman -- 'The shadow of the end' : the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction / Roslyn Weaver -- An end times virtual 'Ekklesia' : ritual deliberation in participatory media / Robert Glenn Howard -- Index.


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Popular culture--Religious aspects.
End of the world.


Electronic books.

BL65.C8 / E53 2009eb

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