Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world /
Aveni, Anthony F.
Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world / Anthony F. Aveni. - pages cm
Includes index.
"Aveni traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting the apocalypse. He explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop with reference to a broader historical trajectory, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past"--
9781607324706 (pbk.)
2015030348
Eschatology.
Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
Prophecies.
End of the world.
Religion and science--United States.
United States--Religion--History.
BL501 / .A94 2016
001.9
Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world / Anthony F. Aveni. - pages cm
Includes index.
"Aveni traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting the apocalypse. He explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop with reference to a broader historical trajectory, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past"--
9781607324706 (pbk.)
2015030348
Eschatology.
Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
Prophecies.
End of the world.
Religion and science--United States.
United States--Religion--History.
BL501 / .A94 2016
001.9