This book looks at the narrative connections between our current sense of crisis and the apocalyptic.
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"For Riesch, 'apocalypse' is a 'diffuse' concept with roots in Jewish and Christian thinking, but that in contemporary Western societies is 'cultural baggage that we carry around with us and that we use to make sense of new and otherwise bewildering threats to our existence' (p. 4). The book considers how this 'cultural baggage' has shaped policy responses to a range of 'bewildering threats,' including climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, asteroid strikes, and geological cataclysms. Riesch argues that paying greater attention to religious discourses might provide public officials and scientists with more robust communicative tools for tackling ecological crises."
Michael J. McVicar, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23625
Michael J. McVicar, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23625