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Product Description: This is the first edited collection addressing the Saw franchise, which to date is the highest grossing horror series of all time. The films are often derided by critics as "torture porn," and as just an excuse to show blood and gore...read more
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9780786470891 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 30, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is the first edited collection addressing the Saw franchise, which to date is the highest grossing horror series of all time.
Product Description: The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film. The essays draw on representations of the apocalypse in heavy metal music, science fiction, disaster movies and anime...read more
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9781845532611 | Routledge, July 6, 2009, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture.
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9781845532628 | Routledge, July 6, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture.
Product Description: Religion is controversial and challenging. Whilst religious forces are powerful in numerous societies, they have little or no significance for wide swaths of public or private life in other places. The task of theoretical work in the sociology of religion is, therefore, to make sense of this apparently paradoxical situation in which religion is simultaneously significant and insignificant...read more
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9780754640684 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 1, 2006, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Religion is controversial and challenging.
Product Description: This book aims to examine several religious groups holding millenarian or apocalyptic ideologies that have been involved in violent incidents over the last twenty-five years: Peoples Temple, The Branch Davidians, The Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God...read more
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9780820472171 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 2005, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: This book aims to examine several religious groups holding millenarian or apocalyptic ideologies that have been involved in violent incidents over the last twenty-five years: Peoples Temple, The Branch Davidians, The Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.
9783039102907 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 30, 2004, cover price $71.95
Product Description: Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, a millenarian New Religious Movement of Indian origin, this book examines the status of tradition in the contemporary world through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a post-traditional society...read more
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9780754609513 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, a millenarian New Religious Movement of Indian origin, this book examines the status of tradition in the contemporary world through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a post-traditional society.
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