How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

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Synopsis
Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bentThe world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.
Copyright:
2016

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ISBN-13:
9781467445290
Publisher:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Copyrighted By:
Robert Joustra, Alissa Wilkinson
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy
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