Escape into the future : cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture /

Escape into the future : cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stroup, John, 1946-
Other Authors: Shuck, Glenn W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States.
Popular culture > Religious aspects.
Religion and culture > United States.
United States > Religion > 1960-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Secret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope
  • Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action
  • Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature
  • God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution?
  • Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism
  • The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism
  • The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic
  • Epilogue: Into the great wide open.