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Exploring Environmental Apocalypticism
Ars & HumanitasIn the Anthropocene Era, overpopulation presents a pressing environmental challenge. As humans take center stage as ecological actors, recognizing that previously unsustainable human-nonhuman relationships fall short of safeguarding the planet for ...
Tan Michael Chandra
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Apocalypse then and now! – Political and religious interpretations of tribulations in apocalyptic mind-sets [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021 The article has three parts. Firstly, we give an overview on how the Greek-Hellenistic imperialism provoked apocalypticism as a way of resistance to colonization (e.g. Egypt and Judah).
Blessing Nyahuma (PhD Candidate) +1 more
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Message of Biblical Apocalyptic Literature and its Relevance for Contemporary Christianity in Ghana [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020 Undoubtedly, apocalyptic literature is among the difficult literature to understand and to interpret due to its literary genre and mode of communication which is often in the form of visions.
Emmanuel Foster Asamoah +2 more
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A. L. Morton’s English Utopia and the Critical Study of Apocalypticism and Millenarianism
Religions, 2023 A. L. Morton (1903–1987) was a popular, pioneering historian and literary critic in the British Marxist tradition. Morton was an influential figure in the historical study of religious radicalism, millenarianism, apocalypticism, and utopianism, yet his ...
James Crossley
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Religions, 2023 Many modern rabbis insist that original sin was invented by St. Paul, and that it does not have a Jewish antecedent. Instead, rabbinic Judaism explains human evil in terms of “yeṣer ha-raʻ,” “the evil inclination.” But evidence from Second Temple period ...
Matthew Wade Umbarger
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Studia Ceranea, 2021 The outbreak and Balkan and Anatolian trajectories of the rebellions of Borkluce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin in 1416 still pose a series of religio-historic problems which still do not allow a satisfactory and detailed reconstruction of their chronology.
Yuri Stoyanov
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Apocalypse Then, Now—and Future? [PDF]
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2020 Since The Limits to Growth study in 1972 scores of studies have concluded that, without a dramatic reduction in human numbers and per-capita consumption and thus ecosystem destruction, and absent concomitant transformation of technological, economic ...
Bron Taylor
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TheoRhēma, 2022 The emergence of apocalypticism continues to be a debate among scholars. The definition of apocalypse as a genre by Semeia 14 and Semeia 36 seems to continue to influence scholars in reconstructing the origin of apocalypticism.
Kenroy R. Campbell
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A Sense of Presence: Mediating an American Apocalypse
Religions, 2021 Here I build upon Robert Orsi’s work by arguing that we can see presence—and the longing for it—at work beyond the obvious spaces of religious practice. Presence, I propose, is alive and well in mediated apocalypticism, in the intense imagination of the ...
Rachel Wagner
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Die Hellenisties-Romeinse w�reld en die ontstaan van apokaliptiek en gnostisisme
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2002 The Hellenistic and Roman world and the origin of the apocalypticism and gnosticism The world view and culture created by the oikoumene of the Hellenistic-Roman era (331 BC to early fourth century AD) was conducive to the rise of several philosphico ...
M. Nel
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