Apocalypticism In The Modern Period And The Con... -

: Continues in movements like dispensational premillennialism in American Christianity, focusing on the Rapture and a divine intervention in history.

Scholars note a "seismic shift" beginning in the late 1960s that accelerated after 2001 due to events like the 9/11 attacks, the 2008 recession, and the . Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Con...

: The world is divided into two discrete realities—the perfect transcendent (Heaven) and the flawed mundane (Earth). This manifests as radical binaries: truth vs. lies, light vs. darkness, and the "Elect" vs. the "Other". the 2008 recession

Rather than just predicting the end, apocalyptic language often serves a pragmatic function as a . It is used to: light vs. darkness