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Apocalyptic Fever: End-Time Prophecies in Modern America is unavailable, but you can change that!

Doomsday ideas in Western history have been both persistent and diverse. Public opinion polls indicate that a substantial number of Americans anticipate the return of Christ or some catastrophic event. In Apocalyptic Fever, Richard Kyle shows how dispensational premillennialism has been the driving force behind doomsday ideas. While several chapters are devoted to this topic, Kyle also surveys...

Having said all of this, “America has always been fertile ground for millennialism.” Certain cultural trends help to promote and spread end of the world thinking. Religious freedom has produced a free market religious economy, which in turn allows people to believe, worship, organize, and promote their ideas as best they can. People are free to follow sober or traditional expressions of religion, but they also have the liberty to embrace unconventional ideas. In most cases millennial
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