A new book edited by Andrew Perrin and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel (Brill, 2020)
The first two video-podcasts from our 'Apocalypse and Utopia, 1914-1945' symposium have been uploaded
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches. The CenSAMM Annual Conference 2021. Online: 29 June to 1 July 2021. Submission deadline: 30 April 2021.
On 22nd February 2021, the Scottish Sun newspaper carried a report on the UK version of the TV gameshow "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" under the headline: "Scots contestant STUNNED as sis gets tough Bible question
New videos added to the 'Video Games and Religion: Apocalypse and Utopia' symposiuim page
The event epitomised the confluence of conspiracy culture, growing authoritarianism, and reactionary white Christianity in American political and public life...
New from CenSAMM: The Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CDAMM)
The Video Games and Religion: Apocalypse and Utopia online symposium took place on 19 November 2020. Following the event, contributors were invited to provide brief videos/podcasts
Apocalypse and Utopia, 1914-1945. Submission deadline: 4 February 2021. Symposium date: 18 February 2021. Online Symposium: While the apocalyptic resonances of the great global conflicts of the twentieth century
“Many of the themes found in these pages”, Joustra writes, are “gather[ed] […] in a single object” (p. 38): the Table of Seven Deadly Sins attributed to Hieronymous Bosch
James Crossley looks at how labels like 'apocalypticism' are applied in popular and academic discourse.
The Russian news agency, TASS, has reported that Sergei Torop, known as Vissarion, the leader of the Church of the Last Testament which is based in Siberia, has been detained with other leaders of the group