Juli L. Gittinger

American Apocalyptic

Beliefs, Rituals, and Expressions of Doomsday Culture in the US

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and politics in a way that is particular to the US and consonant with mythological-historical narratives of America. As a result, we can identify American apocalypticism as a sort of religion in itself that is closely tied to "civil religion," that has a worldview and rituals that create identifiable communities and connects American mythology to apocalyptic anxieties. Gittinger discusses how various cultures and groups form as a result of this obsession, and that these communities form their own rituals and responses in various forms of "prepping" or survivalist practices. She lays out an argument for a broad eschatology prevalent in the US that extends beyond traditional religious designations to form an apocalyptic worldview that is built into our narrative as a country, as well as furthered by popular culture and media's contributionto apocalyptic anxieties. Subsequently, Gittinger uses case studies of apocalyptic events-current or speculative-that reveal how our anxieties about the end of the world (as we know it) inform our culture, as well as religious narratives that emerge from such crises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-56159-7
• 2024
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9783031561597
• ISBN-10: 3031561597
• Artikelnr.: 69942115

Autorenporträt

Juli Gittinger is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Georgia College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- Section 1. TEOTWAWKI.- 2. Cultural narratives of the apocalypse.- 3. Prepping as an American phenomenon. 4. Liberal Preppers.- Section 2. American Anxieties.- 5. Pandemic as apocalyptic event.- 6. Hoping for civil war: the Boogaloo movement.- 7. Climate apocalypse and Eco-piety.- 8. Conclusion.