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dc.contributor.authorKnowles, Steve*
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-11T11:32:25Z
dc.date.available2018-12-11T11:32:25Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-03
dc.identifier.citationKnowles, S. (2018). Brexit, Babylon and Prophecy: Semiotics of the End Times. Religions 9 (12), 396 https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9120396en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/rel9120396
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/621637
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the predilection some Christian premillennialist preachers and teachers have with the semiotic association of geopolitics and biblical prophecy concerning the end times. This was epitomised in the run up to the United Kingdom’s referendum on continued membership of the European Union in June 2016. Since its inception, many premillennialists have interpreted the European Union as the place where the Antichrist emerges. Material objects associated with the European Union such as architecture, sculptures, currency and even posters, have been routinely highlighted as providing clear signs of the coming eschaton. Prophetic links between the European Union and satanic agencies, purported to be behind the ambition for an expanding European confederacy, ensured that many premillennialists voted to leave the European Union or were advised to do so in light of such prophetic signifiers. Utilising Webb Keane’s notion of representational economies, I argue that a premillennialist representational economy drives the search for signs in the everyday, and specifically those associated with the European Union. In this case, such semiotic promiscuity ratified the need to leave the European Union.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/12/396en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectWebb Keaneen_US
dc.subjectSemioticsen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectPremillennialismen_US
dc.subjectProphecyen_US
dc.subjectBrexiten_US
dc.titleBrexit, Babylon and Prophecy: Semiotics of the End Timesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn2077-1444
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren_US
dc.identifier.journalReligionsen_US
or.grant.openaccessYesen_US
rioxxterms.funderunfundeden_US
rioxxterms.identifier.projectunfundeden_US
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_US
rioxxterms.versionofrecordhttps://doi.org/10.3390/rel9120396
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-12-11
rioxxterms.publicationdate2018-12-03
dc.dateAccepted2018-11-28


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