Rapture culture : left behind in evangelical America.

The 'Left Behind' series consist of novels that depict the rapture and apocalypse, with millions of copies in print. In 'Rapture Culture', Amy J. Frykholm explores this remarkable phenomenon, seeking to understand why American evangelicals find the idea of the rapture so compelli...

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Main Author: Frykholm, Amy Johnson, 1971-
Corporate Contributor: Oxford University Press.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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505 0 |a The rapture in America -- Networks of readers, networks of meaning -- The margins of left behind's readership -- "I'm a survivor and he's a survivor" -- Reading the signs of the times -- Making prophecy live -- Witness to the Apocalypse -- Fear, desire, and the dynamics of left behind. 
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