Apocalypse, now? the geopolitics of Left behind

GeoJournal

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-189

  Dittmer, Jason ^a   Spears, Zeke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antichrist; Geopolitical imaginations; Israel; Left Behind; Popular geopolitics; Premillennial dispensationalism

Indexed keywords

ANTICHRIST; GEOPOLITICAL IMAGINATIONS; ISRAEL; LEFT BEHIND; POPULAR GEOPOLITICS; PREMILLENNIAL DISPENSATIONALISM;

COSMOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

STRUCTURAL LOADS;

CHRISTIANITY; GEOPOLITICS; MEDIA ROLE; VIOLENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 67349247654     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-008-9219-8     Document Type: Article

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