Welcome to Doomsday

Welcome to Doomsday
Author: Bill D. Moyers
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2006
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781590172094

This text is an investigation into the coupling of ideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion into political life, in America today. It is a passionate call to save the planet from the forces not only of greed and exploitation but from those who associate its destruction with a spiritual apocalypse.

Media, Spiritualities and Social Change

Media, Spiritualities and Social Change
Author: Stewart M. Hoover
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441145559

Groundbreaking study into the relationship between forms of spirituality, media and its effect on social reform.

Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book
Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 593
Release: 1993-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553562738

Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

America on the Edge

America on the Edge
Author: H. Giroux
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2006-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403984360

Henry Giroux's latest work is a compelling collection of new and classic essays. Key topics such as education and democracy, terrorism and security, and media and youth culture are critiqued in Giroux's signature style. This is a fascinating collection for Giroux fans and educators alike.

Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday
Author: Natalie C. Anderson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0399547622

Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption by the bestselling author of City of Saints & Thieves. Now in paperback. When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier in the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. To save the lives of those he loves and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the jihadi group's ranks, sending dispatches on their plans to the Americans. But it's a dangerous role and if Abdi's duplicity is discovered, he will be killed. For weeks, Abdi trains with the jihadi group, witnessing atrocity after atrocity. But after being forced into a suicide bomber's vest, Abdi finally escapes to Sangui City, Kenya. Homeless and shell-shocked, Abdi is picked up for a petty theft, setting into motion a chain reaction that forces him to reckon with a past he's desperate to forget. In this riveting, unflinching tale of sacrifice and hope, critically-acclaimed author Natalie C. Anderson delivers another tour-de-force that will leave readers at the edge of their seats.

The Gospel of Climate Skepticism

The Gospel of Climate Skepticism
Author: Robin Globus Veldman
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520303660

Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to big government, and theology. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, The Gospel of Climate Skepticism reveals the extent to which climate skepticism and anti-environmentalism have in fact become embedded in the social world of many conservative evangelicals. Rejecting the common assumption that evangelicals’ skepticism is simply a side effect of political or theological conservatism, the book further shows that between 2006 and 2015, leaders and pundits associated with the Christian Right widely promoted skepticism as the biblical position on climate change. The Gospel of Climate Skepticism offers a compelling portrait of how during a critical period of recent history, political and religious interests intersected to prevent evangelicals from offering a unified voice in support of legislative action to address climate change.

World Financial Meltdown

World Financial Meltdown
Author: Laura La Bella
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448812011

Provides information about the economic conditions of the early twenty-first century which is aimed at helping students determine fact from fiction in relation to global financial meltdowns, and discusses ways the government tries to prevent financial crises.

Theology and Climate Change

Theology and Climate Change
Author: Paul Tyson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000366316

Theology and Climate Change examines Progressive Dominion Theology (PDT) as a primary cultural driver of anthropogenic climate change. PDT is a distinctive and Western form of Christian theology out of which the modern scientific revolution and technological modernity arises. Basic attitudes to nature, to instrumental power over nature, and to an understanding of humanity’s relationship with nature are a function of the deep theological preconditions of Western modernity. Much of what we like about Western modernity is indebted to PDT at the same time that this tacit cultural theology is propelling us towards climate disaster. This text argues that the urgent need to change the fundamental operational assumptions of our way of life is now very hard for us to do, because secular modernity is now largely unaware of its tacit theological commitments. Modern consumer society, including the global economy that supports this way of life, could not have the operational signatures it currently has without its distinctive theological origin and its ongoing submerged theological assumptions. Some forms of Christian theology are now acutely aware of this dynamic and are determined to change the modern life-world, from first assumptions up, in order to avert climate disaster. At the same time that other forms of Christian theology – aligned with pragmatic fossil fuel interests – advance climate change skepticism and overtly uphold PDT. Theology is, in fact, crucially integral with the politics of climate change, but this is not often understood in anything more than simplistic and polemically expedient ways in environmental and policy contexts. This text aims to dis-imbed climate change politics from polarized and unfruitful slinging-matches between conservatives and progressives of all or no religious commitments. This fascinating volume is a must read for those with an interest in environmental policy concerns and in culturally embedded first-order belief commitments.

Bad Religion

Bad Religion
Author: Ross Douthat
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 143917833X

Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.

Exploring The Orville

Exploring The Orville
Author: David Kyle Johnson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476642524

This is the first book to take a deep dive into the philosophical, social, moral, political, and religious issues tackled by Seth MacFarlane's marvelous space adventure, The Orville. These new essays explore what The Orville has to say on everything from climate change, artificial intelligence, and sexual assault, to gender, feminism, love, and care. Divided into six "acts" (just like every episode ofThe Orville), with the show as its backdrop, the book asks questions about the dangers of democracy and social media, the show's relationship to Star Trek and the puzzle of time travel.