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Signs of Salvation: Insecurity, Risk and the End of the World in Late Modernity
Knowles, Steve
Knowles, Steve
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This chapter is divided into three parts. First, an outline of Ulrich Beck’s world risk society thesis will provide an important part of the sociological context within which fundamentalism has flourished, particularly in the last 50 years. Second, an introduction to one specific aspect of Christian fundamentalism—namely ‘rapture culture’ (Frykholm 2004) provides the theological context for the discussion. Third, examples of contemporary ‘rapture culture’ are examined which demonstrates the influence of risk and the concomitant insecurity that serves such a theological perspective. Within this culture signs of the end of the world provide succour and point to the possibility that salvation is close at hand.
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Knowles, S. (2017). Signs of Salvation: Insecurity, Risk and the End of the World in Late Modernity. In H. Bacon, W. Dossett, & S. Knowles (Eds.), Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular (pp. 172-182). London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
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9781350039506