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Article: Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
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- June 22, 1998
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Catherine Keller. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. 370pp. $30.00 (cloth).
As we face the dawn of the third millennium, we are also faced with the proliferation of texts and movements - from radical environmentalists to biblical literalists - that predict the end of the world. We can anticipate that, as we come closer to the year 2000, public interest in the "signs of the times" will continue to escalate. Catherine Keller's new book serves as a guide through the morass of apocalyptic proclamations.
Keller approaches the subject of apocalypse not as an event looming on the horizon, but as a "multidimensional, culture-pervading spectrum of ideological assumptions, ...