Gender and Apocalyptic Desire

Brenda E. Brasher is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. Lee Quinby is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York City.

• Series Editor Introduction Brenda E. Brasher; Introduction Brenda E. Brasher; ; 1. The Apocalyptic, Gender and American Christian Fundamentalism Brenda E. Brasher; 2. Ms.Calculating the Apocalypse Catherine Keller; 3. "The Second Descent of the Spirit of Life from God": The Assumption of Jemima Wilkinson Sharon Betcher; 4. Before, the Cup Was Filling Up. Now It Is Flowing Over: The Eschatology of Fluids Christy Cousino; 5. Visions of Mary. Wounds of Christ: Women Stigmatics in the Apocalyptic Piety of Recent Marian Apparitions Sandra Zimdars-Swartz; 6. The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex Tina Pippin; 7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11 Carol Mason; 8. Apocalyptus Interruptus: Christian Fundamentalists, Sodomy, and the End Thomas L. Long; 9. Eccentric Citizens: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Technomillennium Lee Quinby; 10. Rhetoric of the Rejected Body at "Heaven's Gate" Robert Glenn Howard

'Scholarly treatments of millennial matters and women make this a unique volume that will appeal to the specialist but includes some accessible studies like Carol Mason's on anti-abortion terrorism and Tina Pippin's The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex.' - WATERwheel