The end all around us [electronic resource] : apocalyptic texts and popular culture / edited by John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport.
Contributor(s): Walliss, John | Newport, Kenneth G. C | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Millennialism and society: Publisher: London ; Oakville : Equinox, 2009Description: xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Popular culture -- Religious aspects | End of the worldGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 202/.3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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