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001 2007026453
003 DLC
005 20090827102504.0
008 070625s2007 txu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007026453
020 $a9781932792522 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aBL2525$b.S78 2007
082 00 $a306.0973$222
100 1 $aStroup, John,$d1946-
245 10 $aEscape into the future :$bcultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture /$cJohn Stroup and Glenn W. Shuck.
260 $aWaco, Tex. :$bBaylor University Press,$cc2007.
300 $axx, 313 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSecret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope -- Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action -- Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature -- God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution? -- Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism -- The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism -- The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic -- Epilogue: Into the great wide open.
650 0 $aReligion and culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPopular culture$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xReligion$y1960-
700 1 $aShuck, Glenn W.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0721/2007026453.html