| Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse Approx. 390 Pp. Edition Contributor(s): Tonning, Erik, Feldman, Matthew, Addyman, David |
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ISBN: 9004278265 ISBN-13: 9789004278264 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $200.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Subjects & Themes - Religious - Literary Criticism - Religion |
| Dewey: 704.948 |
| Series: Studies in Religion and the Arts |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.65 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of 'Modernism and Christianity' and 'Apocalypse Studies'. The modernist impulse to 'make it new', to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the 'new', but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de si cle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of 'political religions', to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study. |