Con...: Apocalypticism In The Modern Period And The

: "Apocalypses conjure a crisis in order to avert it," providing a powerful tool for environmental or political reorientation.

: The world is divided into two discrete realities—the perfect transcendent (Heaven) and the flawed mundane (Earth). This manifests as radical binaries: truth vs. lies, light vs. darkness, and the "Elect" vs. the "Other". Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Con...

Rather than just predicting the end, apocalyptic language often serves a pragmatic function as a . It is used to: : "Apocalypses conjure a crisis in order to

The modern period has seen a transition where traditional religious tropes are redeployed in secular contexts: light vs. darkness