{"product_id":"american-apocalyptic-beliefs-rituals-and-expressions-of-doomsday-culture-in-the-us-9783031561597","title":"American Apocalyptic: Beliefs, Rituals, and Expressions of Doomsday Culture in the Us","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuli Gittinger\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Georgia College, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929147085074,"sku":"9783031561597","price":118.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_812c3bf8-aae7-40c2-87e8-bd3cb7ba4fd0.jpg?v=1739033817","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-apocalyptic-beliefs-rituals-and-expressions-of-doomsday-culture-in-the-us-9783031561597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}