Category Archives: apocalypticism

“Left Behind” and Evangelical Body Horror

For the last couple of months I’ve been doing research as I draft a book proposal for a potential co-authored volume on the New Christian Right and Satanic Panic. The chapter I’ve been focusing on lately deals with end-times anxiety as a formative element of NCR fear, evangelistic impetus, and revenge on the ungodly. As […]

Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalypse

This conference looks interesting, and i’s connected to the work of Robert Geraci who has been featured here previously. April 5 – 6, 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Museum gardens, Bedford, United Kingdom CenSAMM Symposia Series 2018 Deadline for abstracts extended to February 16. We invite papers from those working across disciplines […]

Call for Papers – AI and Apocalypse

Call for Papers AI and Apocalypse Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) April 5 – 6, 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Charitable Trust gardens, Bedford, United Kingdom CenSAMM Symposia Series 2018 / www.censamm.org Abstracts are due by December 31, 2017. We invite papers from those working across […]

Kelly J. Baker: The Zombies Are Coming!

For a while now I have been following the work of my friend and colleague, Kelly J. Baker, and she recently shared a copy of her new ebook with me on zombies and apocalyptisism. The book is titled The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture (Bondfire Books, 2013), and […]

GE Commercial, Robots, and the End of the World

General Electric has a new commercial that taps into both the apocalyptic angst related to a possible robot uprising, as well as the alleged Mayan calendar prophecy of doom, both of which have been in the news lately. An article on this on North Illinois University NIU Today website described the background behind the commerical: […]

The Coffee Table Book of Doom

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 […]

Relegere Call for Papers: Histories of the End

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 […]

French Fear of Apocalypse, and 2012 Mayan “Prophecy”

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 […]

LiveScience.com: A Brief History of Doomsday

In response to another failed doomsday prophecy, and in anticipation of the next to come in 2012 in connection with the Mayan calendar, a nice graphic comparison of various cultural, religious, and secular doomsday prophecies and scenarios from LiveScience.com. Related posts: “Doomsday America: The Pessimistic Turn of Post-9/11 Apocalyptic Cinema” “Pop Culture Explores the Apocalypse” […]

Doomsday America: The Pessimistic Turn of Post-9/11 Apocalyptic Cinema

Fears, and perhaps for some, joyful anticipation, of apocalyptic doom is in the air. This is perhaps most evident with Christian radio and television preacher Harold Camping’s prediction of the end of the world on May 21st. But this is nothing new, and science fiction and horror films have often involved depictions of apocalypse. But […]

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