TRS 386 Apocalypse: Religious & Cultural Meaning
Are we living in the "final days"? An interdisciplinary examination of "end times" prophecy belief in American thought and culture; also, origins and cultural consequences of biblical apocalyptic thinking in the American experience. Topics: theories of "dispensationalism", pre- and post-millennialism, the role of America in millennial prophecy literature, impact of the Cold War and Nuclear Age on apocalyptic thinking; millenarian thinking in new religious movements, environmental radicalism, American Catholicism, Fundamentalism, and Christian reconstructionism. Secular versions of apocalypticism in quasi-religious survivalist and militia movements.
Prerequisite
TRS 201 or TRS 201H or
HSTR 101