- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group (2 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786718250
- ISBN-13: 978-0786718252
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 11.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,871,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Most people's concept of the 'end of the world' comes from the book of Revelation. Today, there are an estimated 25 million Christian fundamentalists in the US who believe it will come with the 'Rapture;' others point to an ecological catastrophe, the AIDS pandemic, nuclear and biological warfare. With the benefit of a vast historical canvas, Pearson examines both apocalyptic theory (biblical literature, art, and popular culture) and practice (politics, cults, war, and revolution), from its Biblical beginnings to the Branch Davidians, via the Vikings, the French Revolution, the Pilgrim Fathers, Hitler's Apocalyptic rhetoric, asteroids, Hollywood and suicide bombers. Pearson's illuminating study shows how our pictures of the end of the world have evoked and convergedand are still very much on the agenda.
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Written during the Bush years the author was unable or unwilling to control his own bias. Hence the section of the book dealing with the contemporary era simply lampoons Bush, American conservatives, and Christians generally. It makes all sorts of ridiculous assertions about Bush and other Christians working towards apocalyptic millenarianist goals and conducting a war against Islam as part of this. This is so utterly stupid that the validity of all the earlier sections of the book is called seriously into question. This is one of the worst books I've ever read and I urge anyone interested in this topic to find a different book to read.
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9 Jan 2012
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Have you ever taken a class with a focus on the End times? I have. And this class can go on for hours with interesting flics, articles, dialogue etc. This books serves a great tool for a refresher of the subjects revolving around the apocalypse, if the not the study of the end times-which is a profession in its own right. Take a couple days if not weeks and really give your mind a moment to open itself to the ideas of others. Its modern vocabulary, to the point.
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