The Way the World Ends? the Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906055432 ISBN 13 : 9781906055431

Editeur : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009

Synopsis

The richly varied collection of 15 essays in this volume showcase the afterlife of the Book of Revelation. It is a biblical book that has left its mark in many fields of intellectual endeavour: literature, film, music, philosophy, political theology, and religious ideology. It is perhaps paradoxical that this book, which promises God's punishment upon anyone expanding on its contents, has nevertheless accumulated to itself over two millennia vast amounts of commentary, exposition, and appropriation. Offered at the close of the 'Blair/Bush years', this volume also exposes and highlights the often deeply ironic resonances generated while studying the reception history of Revelation during a period when the book has both significant public currency and a potentially terrifying global impact. Contents. Decoding, Reception History, Poetry: Three Hermeneutical Approaches to the Apocalypse (Jonathan Roberts); Self-Authorization in Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep (Jo Carruthers); Revelation, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Alison Jack); Revelation and Film (Melanie J. Wright); The Apocalypse according to Johnny Cash (William John Lyons); The Johannine Apocalypse and the Risk of Knowledge (James E. Harding); Revelation, Violence, and War (Heikki Räisänen); The Reception of Revelation, c. 1250-1700 (Anke Holdenried); A Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist on Revelation 20.1-7 (Simon Woodman); The Book of Revelation, the Branch Davidians and Apocalyptic (Self-)destruction? (Kenneth Newport); Ecological Readings of the Apocalypse of John in Contemporary America (Michael S. Northcott); Feminist Reception of the Book of Revelation (Hanna Stenström); Revelation as Form and Content in the Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Jorunn Økland)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sheffield Phoenix Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906055432
• ISBN 13: 9781906055431
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Lyons William John, Okland Jorunn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible