The geographical pivot of (the end of) history: Evangelical geopolitical imaginations and audience interpretation of Left Behind

Political Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-300

  Dittmer, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audience interpretation; Evangelical Christianity; Fan communities; Left Behind; Popular culture; Popular geopolitics

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIANITY; CULTURE; GEOPOLITICS; ISLAMISM; POLITICAL THEORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 41849108033     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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