Rapture or risk: Signs of the end or symptoms of world risk society?
| dc.contributor.author | Knowles, Steve | * |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-13T16:03:59Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-13T16:03:59Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-12-11 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Knowles, S. (2014). Rapture or risk: Signs of the end or symptoms of world risk society?. Culture and Religion, 15(4), 419-435. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1475-5610 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14755610.2014.982670 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10034/346605 | en |
| dc.description | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Culture and Religion on 11 December 2014 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14755610.2014.982670 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In this article I argue that elements of contemporary fundamentalist Christian apocalyptic discourse are not only influenced by, but are a product of the rhetoric and fascination with the notion of risk. The world risk society thesis developed by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck will be utilised as a conceptual framework to measure one example of an online discourse centred on a Christian dispensationalist understanding of the rapture: Rapture Index. This popular website utilises a statistical probability index system based on 45 different categories that relate to global socio-political events; the higher the aggregate total the nearer the rapture. The Rapture Index is indebted to the impact of risk in contemporary society and it is a tool that exemplifies non-knowing: a product of the world risk society. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcar20/current#.VQMJNE1yZFo | en |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14755610.2014.982670 | en |
| dc.rights | Archived with thanks to Culture and Religion | en |
| dc.subject | Beck | en |
| dc.subject | World risk society | en |
| dc.subject | Apocalypse | en |
| dc.subject | Fundamentalism | en |
| dc.subject | Dispensationalism | en |
| dc.subject | Digital media | en |
| dc.title | Rapture or risk: Signs of the end or symptoms of world risk society? | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1475-5629 | en |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Chester | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | Culture and Religion | en |
| rioxxterms.version | AM | |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.982670 | |
| html.description.abstract | In this article I argue that elements of contemporary fundamentalist Christian apocalyptic discourse are not only influenced by, but are a product of the rhetoric and fascination with the notion of risk. The world risk society thesis developed by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck will be utilised as a conceptual framework to measure one example of an online discourse centred on a Christian dispensationalist understanding of the rapture: Rapture Index. This popular website utilises a statistical probability index system based on 45 different categories that relate to global socio-political events; the higher the aggregate total the nearer the rapture. The Rapture Index is indebted to the impact of risk in contemporary society and it is a tool that exemplifies non-knowing: a product of the world risk society. | |
| rioxxterms.publicationdate | 2014-12-11 | |
| dc.date.deposited | 2015-03-13 |
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