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Food for Thought
By Karin
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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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 converged—and are still very much on the agenda.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2513401 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-02
- Original language:English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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