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"The End Is Near": Pop Culture Adaptations Of Premillennial Themes, Kelsey Samuelsen
"The End Is Near": Pop Culture Adaptations Of Premillennial Themes, Kelsey Samuelsen
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
March 1997: Thirty-nine people poison themselves, committing suicide in order to board an alien space ship allegedly trailing the Hale-Bopp Comet. December 2009: A fa iled cure for cancer sparks a pandemic which immediately kills most of the population and leaves the rest ravaged and cannibalistic. January 2000: The turn of the century threatens to crash the world's computers, wreaking havoc on civilized society. These scenarios, a mixture of fabricated and factual, represent the variety of apocalyptic myths in American culture. The popularity of end-of-the-world themes has risen in recent years. Numerous depictions of such events in well-known books, films, …
The Meanings Of The Millennium, Bernard J. Mcginn
The Meanings Of The Millennium, Bernard J. Mcginn
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
As we approach the year 2000-2001 of what we now ecumenically term the Common Era words like millennium and apocalypse seem to meet us everywhere. Millennial madness, as I call it, may be in large part a media event, but no age in Western history has lacked for those who believed that the end of history, which is what the word apocalypse signifies for most people, was near. While apocalypse conjures up images of dread and destruction in most minds, the history of the broader phenomenon of apocalypticism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, has always been an intricate fusion of …