American Apocalyptic: Beliefs, Rituals, and Expressions of Doomsday Culture in the Us

Gittinger, Juli L.

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-19
  • 售價: $4,700
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 190
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031561597
  • ISBN-13: 9783031561597
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商品描述

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and politics in a way that is particular to the US and consonant with mythological-historical narratives of America. As a result, we can identify American apocalypticism as a sort of religion in itself that is closely tied to "civil religion," that has a worldview and rituals that create identifiable communities and connects American mythology to apocalyptic anxieties. Gittinger discusses how various cultures and groups form as a result of this obsession, and that these communities form their own rituals and responses in various forms of "prepping" or survivalist practices. She lays out an argument for a broad eschatology prevalent in the US that extends beyond traditional religious designations to form an apocalyptic worldview that is built into our narrative as a country, as well as furthered by popular culture and media's contributionto apocalyptic anxieties. Subsequently, Gittinger uses case studies of apocalyptic events--current or speculative--that reveal how our anxieties about the end of the world (as we know it) inform our culture, as well as religious narratives that emerge from such crises.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在這本書中,茱莉·吉廷格爾(Juli Gittinger)認為美國對末日的著迷(或許可以說是痴迷)是宗教、流行文化和政治的綜合體,這種綜合體在美國特有且與美國神話與歷史敘事相一致。因此,我們可以將美國的末世主義視為一種宗教,它與「公民宗教」密切相關,擁有一個世界觀和儀式,創造出可識別的社群,並將美國神話與末日焦慮聯繫在一起。吉廷格爾討論了各種文化和群體如何因此著迷而形成,並且這些社群以各種形式的「預備」或生存主義實踐形成自己的儀式和回應。她提出了一個關於美國普遍存在的廣泛末世論的論點,這種末世論超越了傳統宗教的界定,將末日世界觀融入我們作為一個國家的敘事中,並進一步由流行文化和媒體對末日焦慮的貢獻推動。隨後,吉廷格爾使用了一些關於末日事件(現實或推測)的案例研究,揭示了我們對世界末日(如我們所知)的焦慮如何影響我們的文化,以及從這些危機中產生的宗教敘事。

作者簡介

Juli Gittinger is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Georgia College, USA.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Juli Gittinger 是美國喬治亞學院的宗教助理教授。