TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aveni,Anthony F.
TI  - Apocalyptic anxiety: religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world 
SN  - 9781607324706 (pbk.)
AV  - BL501 .A94 2016
U1  - 001.9 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boulder
PB  - University Press of Colorado
KW  - Eschatology
KW  - Apocalyptic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Prophecies
KW  - End of the world
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - United States
KW  - Religion
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -