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Exploring Environmental Apocalypticism [PDF]

Ars & Humanitas
In 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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INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APOCALYPTICISM

Zygon, 2019
This is an introduction to the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Apocalypticism, which resulted from a conference hosted by the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) in Bedford, UK.
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Plato and Hermes in Mani’s Prophetology: a possible adaptation to the theurgical milieu

Filosofia Unisinos, 2022
The aim of this article is to set forth conjectures that are likely to explain the inclusion of Plato and Hermes as heralds of Mani in the testimony of Ephrem of Syria.
João Paulo Dantas, Gabriele Cornelli
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Evolving Paradigms? Divine Knowledge After the Age of Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Religions
This paper approaches the corpus of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of underlining how a form of prophecy after (or besides) prophets is constructed in Second Temple Judaism.
Andrés Piquer Otero
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Antichrist as (Anti)Charisma: Reflections on Weber and the ‘Son of Perdition’

Religions, 2013
The figure of Antichrist, linked in recent US apocalyptic thought to President Barack Obama, forms a central component of Christian end-times scenarios, both medieval and modern.
Brett Edward Whalen
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Framtidsförväntningar och fiendebilder. Samtida muslimsk och kristen apokalyptik

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
The purpose of this article is to analyze and compare some of the popular, and yet marginalized apocalyptic narratives in contemporary Muslim and Christian thought.
Jakob Wirén
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“Son tutti morti”. Human Extinction and the Apocalyptic Imaginary in Giacomo Leopardi

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes
This article investigates the speculations on and depictions of human extinction in Giacomo Leopardi’s writings, with particular emphasis on the Operette morali (1824–1832).
Sabrina Ferri
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The Senseless Machine

Sociologisk Forskning
Combining crip theory and existential media studies, the purpose of this theoretical essay is to critically interrogate a biometric palm-reading device that turns the hand into a means for payment – connecting its datafied veins to one’s assets – by ...
Amanda Lagerkvist, Jenny Eriksson-Lundström, Maria Rogg   +2 more
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Historiese en sosiale oorsprong(e) van apokaliptiek

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2002
Historical and social origin(s) of apocalyipticism How and where did apocalyptic literature originate? What is the relation between apocalyptic literature on the one hand, and prophesy and wisdom literature on the other? Should apocalyptic literature be
M. Nel, D.J. Human
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A Moderate Millenarianism: Apocalypticism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Religions, 2019
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the largest and arguably best-known branch of the Restoration movement begun by Joseph Smith, sustains a complex but living relationship to nineteenth-century marginal millenarianism and apocalypticism. At
Joseph M. Spencer
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