Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
17 - Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
Apocalyptic thinking informs virtually every major aspect of life in the twenty-first century, the result of a shift in outlook that began in the late 1960s. This chapter examines the causes of this apocalyptic shift and its remarkable acceleration since 2001, with attention to popular culture, the resurgence of robust apocalypticism in religions both new and old, and the “illiberal revolution” and the normalization of apocalyptic thinking.
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Selected Further Reading
Collins, John J., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DiTommaso, Lorenzo. The Architecture of Apocalypticism. New York: Oxford University Press, in press.Google Scholar
Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fiction. London: Verso, 2005.Google Scholar
Lewis, James R. The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lilla, Mark. The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction. New York: New York Review Books, 2016.Google Scholar
Stein, Stephen J., ed. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. Vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age. New York: Continuum, 1998.Google Scholar
Strozier, Charles B., et al., eds. The Fundamentalist Mindset. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sutton, Matthew Avery. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2014.Google Scholar
Walls, Jerry L., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
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