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Deeply researched and impeccably even-handed in its treatment of scientists and evangelicals, Existential Threats fills a large gap in the historical literature about apocalyptic writings in American culture. -Grant Wacker, author of America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation Existential Threats offers lucidly written and knowledgeable discussions of fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, premillennialism, and dispensationalism and brings them to bear on a topic of interest to both religion and science: the end of the world as Americans imagine it. -Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Existential Threats offers lucidly written and knowledgeable discussions of fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, premillennialism, and dispensationalism and brings them to bear on a topic of interest to both religion and science: the end of the world as Americans imagine it. -Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison Deeply researched and impeccably even-handed in its treatment of scientists and evangelicals, Existential Threats fills a large gap in the historical literature about apocalyptic writings in American culture. -Grant Wacker, author of America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation As a reference book for apocalyptic thought at the intersection of science, religion, and environmentalism, Existential Threats is extremely useful . . . Vox exhaustively canvasses works of fiction, nonfiction, and film, with attention to shared themes and rhetoric. Her in-depth treatment of apocalyptic science fiction, in and of itself, makes this book a valuable resource. -Environmental History

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Lisa Vox teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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