How to Survive the Apocalypse
eBook - ePub

How to Survive the Apocalypse

Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How to Survive the Apocalypse

Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

About this book

Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. 1. The World Is Going to Hell
  4. 2. A Short History of the Secular Age
  5. 3. A Short History of the Apocalypse
  6. 4. Keep Calm and Fight the Cylons: New Ways to Be Human
  7. 5. Remember My Name: Antiheroes and Inescapable Horizons
  8. 6. A Lonely Man, His Computer, and the Politics of Recognition
  9. 7. Winter Is Coming: The Slide to Subjectivism
  10. 8. How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
  11. 9. The Scandal of Subtler Languages
  12. 10. May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor: Learning to Love Faithful Institutions
  13. 11. On Babylon’s Side
  14. Acknowledgments