Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century casts everything from El Nio to sheep cloning in apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fueling panic and fostering unfounded hope for a perfect world. Millennial rhetoric is both pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the regulation of cyberspace, and the Christian masculinity of the Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia, and racism with absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality, and technology. It is the absolutism of apocalyptic thought--not an impending apocalypse--that poses the more serious threat to our society, Quinby maintains. Millennial Seduction advocates a form of skepticism that challenges absolutism and encourages democratic participation.
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I purchased this book as a resource to spark my interest in my Apocalyptic class I was taking. By all means, please sit down, take your time, a pen and highlighter, it has great information, and a lot of things that can be used in a paper (if the subject fits). Its short, informative and intriguing. If you know what Millennial means. :)
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Our daily lives, from the way we perceive the weather to how we experience our bodies and conjure the future, have been ingrained with the textures of apocalyptic belief. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Promise Keepers, United States, Book of Revelation, Religious Right, New York, Christian Right, Jeriko One, Joe Pitt, Sex Respect, African American, Lenny Nero, New Age, Louis Ironson, Rodney King, Prior Walter, Roy Cohn, Charles Strozier, Frank Black, Norman Cohn, Tina Pippin, Whore of Babylon, Woman Clothed New!
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Our daily lives, from the way we perceive the weather to how we experience our bodies and conjure the future, have been ingrained with the textures of apocalyptic belief. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Promise Keepers, United States, Book of Revelation, Religious Right, New York, Christian Right, Jeriko One, Joe Pitt, Sex Respect, African American, Lenny Nero, New Age, Louis Ironson, Rodney King, Prior Walter, Roy Cohn, Charles Strozier, Frank Black, Norman Cohn, Tina Pippin, Whore of Babylon, Woman Clothed New!
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- Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Pt. 2) by Tony Kushner on 8 pages
- Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America by Charles B. Strozier on 6 pages
- Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism by Lee Quinby on 5 pages
- Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John (Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation) by Tina Pippin on 4 pages
- Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information by James Brook on 4 pages
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- Cultural Studies and Political Theory by Jodi Dean in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- UFO Religions by Christopher Partridge on page 254, and Back Matter
- God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys by Catherine Keller in Back Matter
- Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy by Jodi Dean in Back Matter
- Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism (Perspectives on Gender) by Abby L. Ferber in Back Matter
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