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  title info:
    title: Feeling the future at Christian end-time performances
  name:
    name part: Stevenson, Jill
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: The End is always near. The Apocalypse has sparked imaginations for millennia, while in more recent times, highly publicized predictions have thrust End-Time theology briefly into the spotlight. In the 21st century, fictional depictions of various apocalyptic scenarios are found in an endless stream of films, TV shows, and novels, while real-world media coverage of global issues including climate change and the migrant crisis often features an apocalyptic tone. Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances explores this prevalent human desire to envision the End by analyzing how various live End-Time performances allow people to live in and through future time. The book's main focus is contemporary Christian End-Time performances and how they theatrically construct encounters with future time-not just images or ideas of a future, but viscerally and immediately real experiences of future time. Author Jill Stevenson's examples are Hell Houses and Judgement Houses; Rapture House, a similarly styled "walk through drama" in North Carolina; Hell's Gates, an "outdoor reality drama" in Dawsonville, Georgia; Ark Encounter, a full-size recreation of Noah's Ark; and Tribulation Trail, an immersive thirteen-scene drama ministry based on the Book of Revelation. The book's coda considers similarities between these Christian performances and secular survivalist prepper events, especially with respect to constructions of and language about time. In doing so, the author situates these performances within a larger tradition that challenges traditional secular/sacred distinctions and illuminates how the End Times has been employed in our current social and political moment.
  table of contents: 1. The Landscape of the End: Time, Affect, Threat, Absence -- 2. Scripting the Absence of Feeling: Hell House, Judgement House, and Rapture House -- 3. "It Is Happening!" Feeling the Impending Future at Hell's Gates -- 4. Forgetting the Future: Noah's Ark as Palimpsest -- 5. A Memory of the Future: Rehearsing the End at Tribulation Trail.
  note: [by] Jill Stevenson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Eschatology
  subject:
    topic: Christianity and culture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Amusements
    geographic: United States
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture
    geographic: United States
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: BT819.5
  identifier: 9780472129706
  identifier: 0472129708
  identifier: 9780472132850
  identifier: 0472132857
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 210823
    record change date: 20221205193513.2
    record identifier: in00004607066
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng