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Seeing an apocalyptic post-antibiotic future lowers antibiotics expectations and requests. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Med (Lond)
Antibiotic resistance is an ongoing pandemic which represents a global public health threat. To encourage the judicious use of antibiotics, public health discourse and campaigns often engage in threat-based messaging depicting an apocalyptic post ...
Sirota M, Juanchich M.
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Apocalyptic television

open access: yesCommunicare, 2022
Since the beginning of the decade the world has shrunk through the growth of global mass communication and Information highways. Greater access to Information makes the consumer more susceptible to propaganda, disguised by Information providers as ...
Leslie Harris
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Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2018
This article examines Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) in the context of the growing body of contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions and what I argue is their critique of the apocalyptic tradition.
Diletta De Cristofaro
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Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 2023
Eco-miserabilism—the thought that it is already too late to avert the collapse of human civilization—is gaining traction in contemporary environmentalism.
M. Thaler
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Living the Kingdom of God: The Communal and Renewing Spirituality of Jesus in Mark

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Understanding spirituality as “the sense or experience of God and the way one lives in response to that experience”, Jesus’ spirituality according to Mark may be described as relational and communal, with less attention given to the interior spiritual ...
Mitzi Minor
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The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions

open access: yesDemocratization, 2023
Populism is a global phenomenon with a power and resilience that frequently surprises political observers. This article builds from the theoretical work of Margaret Canovan and others to investigate the “spirit” of populism in terms of its quasi ...
Daniel Nilsson DeHanas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Call it Science: Biblical Studies, Science Fiction, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021
In the virtual world elaborated in Marvel’s movies (the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” or MCU), “science” is creatively, strategically confused with “magic” and/or “religion.” Key supernatural/magical elements of the franchise’s comic-book source material ...
Aaron Ricker
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Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic

open access: yes, 2021
A detailed study on the nature of Muslim apocalyptic material in Islam, both Sunni and Shi'i. Taking a transcultural perspective by also discussing Christian and Jewish apocalyptic traditions, it offers in eight studies and three appendices a typology of
D. Cook
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beastly Boasts and Apocalyptic Affects: Reading Revelation in a Time of Trump and a Time of Plague

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Waxing “biblical,” Donald Trump has described the COVID-19 pandemic as a “plague.” In a different but related register, millions of Christians worldwide have interpreted the pandemic as one of the eschatological plagues prophesied in the Book of ...
Stephen D. Moore
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Victim to Victor: The Appeal of Apocalyptic Hope

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Jewish apocalyptic literature emerged as a form of resistance literature during the intertestamental period. A product of marginalized communities, such literature is highly political, articulating the worldview of the politically oppressed and those who
Robyn Whitaker
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