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Suitable both for scholars and for general readers, this is an analysis of doomsday cults and apocalyptic anxiety in American culture.

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"The End of the World As We Know It makes accessible to both scholars and general readers the amazing panorama of millenarian scenarios abounding in America at the end of the millennium." -- Robert S. Ellwood,University of Southern California
"A marvelous book, at once comprehensive and highly readable, a fascinating analysis of doomsday cults and apocalyptic anxiety." -- Michael Owen Jones,University of California, Los Angeles
"Fascinating [and] intelligent . . . should be required reading." * Psychotronic *
"Will stand for some time as the best survey and analysis of the meaning and place of apocalypticism and millennialism in American culture." * Religion and Literature *

The End of the World as We Know it Faith Fatalism

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    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 01/05/1999
    ISBN13: 9780814793480, 978-0814793480
    ISBN10: 0814793487
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Suitable both for scholars and for general readers, this is an analysis of doomsday cults and apocalyptic anxiety in American culture.

    Trade Review
    "The End of the World As We Know It makes accessible to both scholars and general readers the amazing panorama of millenarian scenarios abounding in America at the end of the millennium." -- Robert S. Ellwood,University of Southern California
    "A marvelous book, at once comprehensive and highly readable, a fascinating analysis of doomsday cults and apocalyptic anxiety." -- Michael Owen Jones,University of California, Los Angeles
    "Fascinating [and] intelligent . . . should be required reading." * Psychotronic *
    "Will stand for some time as the best survey and analysis of the meaning and place of apocalypticism and millennialism in American culture." * Religion and Literature *

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