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Author: M. Tanaka
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-29
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1137373555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
Author: Stephen Beebe
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1493121200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs there logic in the Book of the Apocalypse? The Apocalypse is perhaps the most controversial book of the entire Bible, and its meaning is debated by clerics and academics. As conflicts and crises deepen around the world, Christians ponder its relevance for the twenty-first century. Is there any way to understand it rationally? The Logic of the Apocalypse presents a novel approach that will satisfy your curiosity and will lead you to new conclusions about its message.
Author: Wolfram Brandes
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 3110472635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.
Author: David G. Roskies
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1999-12-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780815606154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings.
Author: William McCants
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-09-22
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1466892706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen--William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more have spread terror beyond the Middle East under the Islamic State's black flag. How did the Islamic State attract so many followers and conquer so much land? By being more ruthless, more apocalyptic, and more devoted to state-building than its competitors. The shrewd leaders of the Islamic State combined two of the most powerful yet contradictory ideas in Islam-the return of the Islamic Empire and the end of the world-into a mission and a message that shapes its strategy and inspires its army of zealous fighters. They have defied conventional thinking about how to wage wars and win recruits. Even if the Islamic State is defeated, jihadist terrorism will never be the same.
Author: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781433104190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResponding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture's fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narratives. Essays discuss films and made-for-television movies - including Deep Impact, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow - that feature primarily [hu]man-made catastrophes or natural catastrophes. These representations complement the large amount of mediated literature and films on religious perspectives of the apocalypse, the Left Behind series, and other films/books that deal with prophecy from the Book of Revelation in the Bible. This book will be useful in upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses addressing mass media, film and television studies, popular culture, rhetorical criticism, and special/advanced topics. In addition, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in disciplines including anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and religious studies.
Author: Thomas J. J. Altizer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1997-02-20
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780791433768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in our history. The book imaginatively engages many views of Jesus: an apocalyptic Jesus, gnostic Jesus, Buddhist Jesus, Pauline Jesus, Crossan's Jesus, and the Catholic, Protestant, and nihilistic views found in writers such as Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche. Altizer also examines the Jesus who emerges from the Jesus Seminar. Seldom, if ever, has there been such an intense public and critical engagement with Jesus, as our New Testament scholarship is wholly isolated from both our imaginative and our conceptual traditions, and likewise isolated from all genuine theological or even religious understanding. The Contemporary Jesus bridges that chasm, this alone making the book unique, but the book is also an embodiment of a contemporary radical theology which is Christian and universal at once. It intends a critical recovery of the original Jesus that can be integrated with our deeper history, a history which is finally a universal history, but a universal history that is wholly opaque to our given and established theological understanding.
Author: Michael E. Stone
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781451414653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume describes that part of the rich literary production of ancient Judaism which was not contained in the Hebrew Bible nor in rabbinic literature. These writings originated in the Second Temple period, which proved highly creative in the midst of strong external influences and internal movements.Prime example are the Dead Sea Scrolls, documents of an extremely separatist sect. Their discovery in 1947 revolutionized our understanding of Second Temple Judaism and its literature. The scrolls appear more or less related in spirit to a group of writings trasmitted by Christianity and known as the Pseudepigrapha. Yet another group are the Apocrypha, closely related to later biblical writings and incorporated within the Greek Old Testament. Finally, the encounter with Greek culture is documented by Jewish authors writing in Greek, notably Philo and Josephus.After a historical outline which sets the stage, the chapters of this book describe and analyse these documents. Selective bibliographies for further reading conclude the chapters.
Author: Jean-Pierre Prevost
Publisher:
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780334021018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascination of the Book of Revelation, which tends to increase with troubled times, especially towards the end of a millennium, is justification for a whole volume of the Howto Read series to be devoted to its content. The result is a new and fascinating approach to Bible study. The author offers five 'keys' for understanding the book, derived from study of its background and content, and then applies them to interpretation of the most famous chapters of the Apocalypse. Having learned this approach, readers are then in a position to understand the material not covered in detail. Jean-Pierre Prevost teaches scripture in the St Paul University, Ottawa.
Author: MaryKate Messimer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-04-25
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 3031299205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores concepts of environmentalism and feminism in science fiction novels written by women. By extrapolating the future of climate change, the authors of these texts model how readers can apply utopian feminist and environmental theories in their own lives. Chapter One establishes an understanding of ecofeminist environmental thinking through original research conducted at the Ursula K. Le Guin archive at the University of Oregon. Chapter Two shows an example of climate change dystopia set in California in Claire Vaye Watkins’ novel Gold Fame Citrus. The final chapters explore utopian visions of queer ecologies in books by Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin. Because climate change is so difficult for individuals to grapple with, a new perspective is needed to survive it. The queer ecological philosophy in these novels points to a way of life that can reduce environmental harm in an era of climate change.
