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The Coffee Table Book of Doom

October 5th, 2012 | Posted in apocalypticism, millenarianism, post-apocalypticism

We can run, but we can’t hide. Eventually we will meet our Doom, individually as well as collectively. And there are a variety of ways in which it might happen, with some more plausible than others. Many believe that The End will come in December of this year in keeping with certain interpretations of an […]

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Relegere Call for Papers: Histories of the End

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in apocalypticism, call for papers, millenarianism, post-apocalypticism

CALL FOR PAPERS – Histories of the End In 2012 Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception will publish a special issue dedicated to reception histories of the end times, however they might be imagined, in religious contexts. We welcome reception histories not only of Christian imaginaries of the book of Revelation, but also of the […]

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French Fear of Apocalypse, and 2012 Mayan “Prophecy”

July 3rd, 2011 | Posted in 2012 Mayan prophecy, apocalypticism, millenarianism

A recent news item discussed serious pessimism in France leading to fears of mass suicide in the country, perhaps in connection with fears over the Mayan “prophecy of doomsday” in 2012. CNN reported: Paris (CNN) — The specter of a mass suicide tied to the widely predicted end of the world in December 2012 has […]

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2012 and Mayan Calendar of the End

November 19th, 2009 | Posted in 2012 Mayan prophecy, apocalypticism, millenarianism, pop culture

Several weeks ago I first saw the trailers for 2012 in movie theaters and on television. The trailer depicted a man and his family making a last second escape from apparently worldwide destruction as homes, buildings, freeways, and entire landscapes crumbled around them in a catastrophic upheaval. A small private airplane with the family on […]

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