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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu HumanioraThis paper argues that reading Western settler-colonial apocalyptic narratives—including films, video games, and novels such as The Road, the Fallout series, Children of Men, and Interstellar—through the lens of unfuturability reveals their underlying ...
Stefanus Galang Ardana
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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The Dual Interpretations of the Millennial Kingdom in Early Modern Christian Apocalypticism
HumanitiesMillenarianism originated from apocalyptic literature in Judaism, emphasizing that the “Messiah” would establish a “millennial kingdom” on earth ruled by the Jews.
Yixiao Sun
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Визуальная теологияAt present, eschatological and apocalyptic issues are acting as a stable driver for the development of popular religious discourse. At the same time, marginal groups of religious people are actively using apocalyptic semantics on the Internet to develop ...
Vladimir Lebedev / Владимир Юрьевич Лебедев +1 more
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English Evangelical Historians on the Origins of “the Reformation”
Etudes Epistémè, 2017 Although Luther’s protest of indulgences in 1517 is often considered to be the point of origin for “the Reformation”, first- and second-generation English evangelicals understood that origin differently.
Susan Royal
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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