Introduction: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation 1
5. Part 1: From Old Worlds to New Worlds
6. A Political Theology of the World That Ends 21
7. A Godless Apocalypse and the Atom Bombs: Ronald Knox and a New Concept of World Ending 37
8. Remembering John Ball: Rethinking the Transformation from Old Worlds to New 57
9. Part 2: World Ending Experiences
10. New World and the End of the World: Apocalyptic Cartographies of the Conquest 77
11. Mapping Space and Time in Apocalyptic Representations in Latin American Colonial Art 97
12. Restitutive Writings of Worlds at the Southern Confine of the World 115
13. Part 3: Apocalyptic Imaginaries
14. The Infrastructure of the Planets of the Apes 139
15. Pralaya: Competing Apocalypses and Dystopias in Contemporary Indian Science-Fiction 157
16. Part 4: Action, Activism, Advocacy
17. The Cross and the Pink Shotgun: Apocalypse and the Antifeminist Movement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil 187
18. World without Humans, Humans without World: Apocalyptic Passions in the Anthropocene 209
19. The Wheelchair and the Whale: Disability and the End of the World 227
20. Contributors 243
21. Index 247