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Escape into the future : cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture
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Escape into the future : cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture

John Stroup

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Secret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope
Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action
Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature
God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution?
Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism
The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism
The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic
Epilogue: Into the great wide open.

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Escape into the future : cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture by John Stroup. ISBN 9781932792522. Published by Baylor University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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