Recommended Readings for Research Essay and Final Projects
Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More, Harvard UP, 1992
Brasher, Brenda, and Lee Quinby. Gender and Apocalyptic Desire, Equinox, 2006
Cohn, Norman. Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come
The Pursuit of the Millennium, 1957
Frykholm, Amy Johnson. Rapture Culture, Oxford UP 2004 (on Left Behind Series)
Fuller, Robert. Naming the Anti-Christ, Oxford UP 1995
Gould, Stephen Jay. Questioning the Millennium, Harmony books, 1997
Guyatt, Nicholas. Have a Nice Doomsday. Harper Perrennial, 2007
Jackson, Gregory. The Word and its Witness, U of Chicago Press, 2009
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God, U of California Press, 2003
Keller, Catherine. Apocalypse Now and Then, Beacon Press, 1996
God and Power, Fortress Press, 2005
Kermode, Frank. The Sense of An Ending, Oxford UP, 1967 (reissued 2000)
LaHaye, Tim, and Jerry Jenkins. Novels from the Left Behind Series
Lawrence, D. H. Apocalypse (1931), Penguin Press, 1995
Lifton, Robert Jay. Super Power Syndrome, Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003
Long, Thomas. AIDS and American Apocalypticism, SUNY Press, 2005
Manley, Roger, et al. The End is Near, Dilettante Press, 1999 (artwork and essays)
MacDonald, Andrew. The Turner Diaries, Barricade Books, 1980
McGinn, Bernard, et al, eds. The Continuum History of Apocalypticism, 2003
O’Leary, Stephen. Arguing the Apocalypse, Oxford UP 1994
Pippin, Tina. Apocalyptic Bodies, Routledge, NYC, 1999
Pinchbeck, Daniel. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Penguin,2007.
Quinby, Lee. Anti-Apocalypse, Minnesota UP, 1994
Millennial Seduction, Cornell UP 1999
Rosen, Elizabeth. Apocalyptic Transformation, Lexington Books, 2008
Vaughan, Brian K. Y: The Last Man, Vertigo Series
Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses, Harvard UP, 1999
Walliss, John, and Lee Quinby. Reel Revelations, Phoenix-Sheffield, 2010
Weissman, Alan. The World Without Us. St. Martin’s Press, 2007
Wojcik, Daniel. The End of the World as We Know It, New York UP
Selected Online Sites:
Countdown to Armageddon, http://www.countdown.org/
Journal of Millennial Studies (Special Issue) http://www.mille.org/publications/summer99.html
New Internationalist Magazine, issue on Anti-Semitism and Conspiracism: http://www.publiceye.org/antisemitism/newint.html
PBS Frontline on Apocalypse: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/
Rapture Ready: http://www.raptureready.com/
Vice Magazine Survival Guide: http://www.viceland.com/int/guide_apocalypse/htdocs/survivalism_az.php?country=us
Journal of Religion and Film: http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/
