Awaiting Apocalypse

Awaiting Apocalypse
Author: P. Corcoran
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1999-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230597319

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The current obsession with the 'end of the millennium' illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking. Opening a path of understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the sceptical predicates of modern science, Awaiting Apocalypse shows how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning.

Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family

Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
Author: Veronica Chater
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-02-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393073548

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Growing up Catholic in a family where the reforms of Vatican II are seen as the work of Satan. It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol, sells everything, and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima. But Portugal is no Catholic utopia, and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings, serving meals to religious soldiers, breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream, she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern—clothes, movies, or music. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.

Apocalypse without God

Apocalypse without God
Author: Ben Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316517055

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Explains why apocalyptic thought, despite often being dismissed as bizarre, has persistent appeal in political life.

Approaching Apocalypse

Approaching Apocalypse
Author: Kevin Mills
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838756270

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"Written for scholars and students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels with an interest in modern literary studies, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in the Victorian era, biblical studies, the history of ideas, literature and myth, and theology."--BOOK JACKET.

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature
Author: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1003815952

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This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos’—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings’ of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene’s decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates ‘cosmos’ as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and postcolonial, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies.

Awaiting the Apocalypse

Awaiting the Apocalypse
Author: Jonathan M. Vick
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781490554068

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Stage play. 5 M, 2 W. One set. Two acts. "I saw a storm coming from the North, a vast cloud with flashes of fire and brilliant light around it; and within it was a radiance like brass, glowing in the heart of the flames. In the fire was the semblance of four living creatures in human form . . ." -- Ezekiel 1:4 In a diner of the small town of Smithereens, three of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse wait, restlessly, for the Fourth Horseman to arrive and begin the end of the world. Cameron, a single man with aspirations of falling in love, stumbles into the diner, chasing a girl whom he has never met and, unwittingly, becomes that Fourth Horseman. As the others try to talk this Fourth Horseman into following his dream and talking to the girl, the other three slowly begin to realize what the Apocalypse is all about ... that it has already begun, and that if they don't do something quickly, it will pass them by. "What is the Apocalypse? Is it fire and brimstone and dieties passing judgement? Or is it just you and me ... giving up?" The end of the world has never been like this before.

Waiting for the Apocalypse

Waiting for the Apocalypse
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1983
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

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Odd Apocalypse

Odd Apocalypse
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345533585

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“Koontz gives [Odd Thomas] wit, good humor, a familiarity with the dark side of humanity—and moral outrage.”—USA Today Once presided over by a Roaring ’20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants—and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably charming traveling companion. Fresh from a harrowing clash with lethal adversaries, they welcome their host’s hospitality. But Odd’s extraordinary eye for the uncanny detects disturbing secrets that could make Roseland more hell than haven. Soon enough the house serves up a taste of its terrors, as Odd begins to unravel the darkest mystery of his curious career. What consequences await those who confront evil at its most profound? Odd only knows. “Odd Thomas is the greatest character Dean Koontz has ever created. He’s funny, humble, immensely likable, courageous, and just a joy to read about.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer “[Odd Thomas is] one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction.”—The Virginian-Pilot “Supernatural thrills with a side of laughs.”—The Denver Post

Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family

Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
Author: Veronica Chater
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2009-02-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393066037

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Recounts the author's unusual early life growing up in a large, very conservative Catholic family soon after the changes resulting from the Second Vatican Council, dealing with the family's extreme reaction to these changes with humor and openness.

Awaiting the Millennium

Awaiting the Millennium
Author: Richard G. Kyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1998
Genre: Apocalyptic literature
ISBN:

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The Last Days Are Here Again serves as a comprehensive source regarding movements related to the end times. This handy guide also examines ideas espoused by fringe groups such as the Heaven's Gate cult and shows how end-time thinking has been adapted to fit nearly every time period.