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Seeing an apocalyptic post-antibiotic future lowers antibiotics expectations and requests. [PDF]
Commun 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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Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Open 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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Call it Science: Biblical Studies, Science Fiction, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe [PDF]
Journal 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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Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism
American 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
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The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions
Democratization, 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
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Religions, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a social drama in which churches, government, and individual actors have played prominent roles. While neo-conservative evangelicals have resisted governmental and scientific overreach in the name of “faith over fear ...
Donald Heinz
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Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world
Urban studies, 2022 This paper responds to calls for radical experimentation in urban theory in the context of the material and psychological upheavals of Anthropocene. It does so through the development of an apocalyptic urban surrealism, based on a set of principles drawn
Japhy Wilson
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Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Text Matters, 2022 The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism.
K. Więckowska
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, 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
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Living the Kingdom of God: The Communal and Renewing Spirituality of Jesus in Mark
Religions, 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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