Apocalypse When?
Why We Want To Believe There Will Be No Tomorrow
Published on 25. October 2012
210 pages
978-0-232-52984-5 (ISBN)
Description
The world will end in December 2012 - if the proponents of the Mayan Calendar theory are correct. There is nothing new about End-time alarms: the ancient astrologers lived in a perpetual state of expectation, and over the last 2000 years there have been at least 50 major prophecies and panics. Even science contributes to the doomsday scenarios, such as the Y2K bug, the Hadron collider and global warming. In Apocalypse When? Ted Harrison asks why it is that we are so determined to forecast The End. Why do many people prefer to think of the world ending in a single dramatic event than simply fading away over millions of years? Is it a way of not taking responsibility for the injustices of here and now?
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07/2012
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Preface
- Apocalypse When
- 1: The End Is Nigh
- 2: 'Never Mind Lads, Same Time Tomorrow'
- 3: One Thousand and Counting
- 4: The Great Disappointment
- 5: Armageddon Deferred
- 6: Rapture Ready
- 7: 'Could it be Jerusalem Time?'
- 8: End-Time - New Age?
- 9: Not When, But What?
- 10: On A Big Screen Near You
- 11: Judgment
- 12: The Doomsday Clock
- 13: We Know the Day and the Hour
- Back Matter
- Also Available
