Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical IdentityThe Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins has become a popular culture phenomenon, selling an astonishing 40 million copies to date. These novels, written by two well-known evangelical Christians, depict the experiences of those "left behind" in the aftermath of the Rapture, when Christ removes true believers, leaving everyone else to suffer seven years of Tribulation under Satan's proxy, Antichrist. |
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... least a measure of the attention garnered by his first monograph, Kali's Child, although I could do without the parliamentary debates on the merits of burning it. I would also like to thank Cathy Wessinger, who heard a summarized ...
... least, I thank my parents, Colleen and Charles Shuck, who provided support, read drafts, sent love, sent money, and basically anything else I needed during those lean years known as graduate school. My academic work would simply not ...
... least in the popular sense. Prophecy belief represents what historian George M. Marsden calls a kind of folk piety.3 It overflows theological and denominational boundaries and proves most influential at the popular level. Prophecy ...
... least theologically—and many if not most conservative evangelicals are prophecy believers, even if they fail to accept everything that books like Left Behind preach to them. Hence, one will always find important exceptions, but the term ...
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Contents
First Words on Last Things | 1 |
The Dispensational Background
of Evangelical Prophecy Belief | 29 |
2 Reluctant Rebels | 53 |
3 The Emergence of the Network CultureBeast System | 82 |
4 Technologies of Transcendence | 112 |
5 Marks of the Beast | 141 |
6 Beast Inc | 167 |
Epilogue | 196 |
Notes | 209 |
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About the Author | 273 |
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Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: [5 Volumes] Eugene V. Gallagher,William M. Ashcraft No preview available - 2006 |
Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: [5 Volumes] Eugene V. Gallagher,William M. Ashcraft No preview available - 2006 |