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Macaulay Honors College, CUNYProfessor Lee Quinby
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Tag Archives: Left Behind
Ending With a Whimper, Not a Bang
“The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didn’t answer. He went into the bathroom and threw … Continue reading
Posted in Mac Warren, November, November 9
Tagged apocalypse, Book of Revelation, Cormac McCarthy, End of Days, Fiction, Glorious Appearing, Left Behind, Science Fiction, The Road, y2k
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The Social Network, Strozier, and Scientific Sloppiness
Having recently seen The Social Network, Charles B. Strozier’s essay, “The Apocalyptic Other,” was eerily pertinent. The film, which focuses on two lawsuits brought against Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) – one from two Harvard classmates who allege that … Continue reading
Posted in Mac Warren, October, October 19
Tagged apocalypse, Film, Fundamentalism, Jones, LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind, Paranoia, Strozier, The Social Network, Video Games, violence, White Noise
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The Fundamentalization of Pop Culture
I’d love to be able to come here and tell you guys that I loved reading Glorious Appearing – that, and that the essays read in The Fundamentalist Mindset were intriguing. perhaps my language isn’t fair – I did enjoy … Continue reading
Posted in Jon Rossi, October, October 12
Tagged antichrist, Christ, fudamentalism, Global Community, lack of complexity, LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind, Nicolae Carpathia, offensive religious comparisons, Rayford Steele, simplicity, Tribulation Force, true believers, United Nations, violations of prophecy, violence
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Rationalizing the End of the World
The direct and concise analysis of apocalyptic belief and its connection to fundamentalism in Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terzian, and James W. Jones’ Fundamentalist Mindset is in many ways a literary foil to the hyperbolic narrative formed in Tim … Continue reading
