Escape into the Future: Cultural Pessimism and Its Religious Dimension in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Stroup.front -- Stroup-Schuck.interior.pdf -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1: Secret Agents -- 2: Do We Still Want to Believe? -- 3: Perhaps Today -- 4: God's Unwanted -- 5: Relocating the American Dream -- 6: The Quest for Real-World Correlates -- 7: The Question of Real-World Correlates to Fantasy Processes of Decline -- Epilogue -- Bibliographical Essay -- Notes -- Index