{"product_id":"when-time-shall-be-no-more-prophecy-belief-in-modern-american-culture-studies-in-cultural-history","title":"When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Studies in Cultural History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMillions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers  periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in Gods prophetic plan for mankind. And yet  influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many  the belief in biblical prophecy remains a popular mystery  largely unstudied and little understood. When Time Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle  pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to antiquity  and there Paul Boyer begins  seeking out the origins of this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings  then tracing its development over time. Against this broad historical overview  the effect of prophecy belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear and striking detail. Nuclear war  the Soviet Union  Israel and the Middle East  the destiny of the United States  the rise of a computerized global economic order--Boyer shows how impressive feats of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular imagination in terms of the Bibles apocalyptic works. Reflecting finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly secular age  Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction might take--and the forms it might assume--in the post-Cold War era. The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture of prophecy belief  When Time Shall Be No More serves as a pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary American popular thought-a thorough and thoroughly fascinating index to its sources  its implications  and its enduring appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985211551797,"sku":"ByrdShop_067495128X","price":39.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674951280.jpg?v=1770852315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-time-shall-be-no-more-prophecy-belief-in-modern-american-culture-studies-in-cultural-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}