Living at the End of the World: Humanity's Obsession with Its Own Ultimate Demise by Marina Benjamin

Living at the End of the World: Humanity's Obsession with Its Own Ultimate Demise

Marina Benjamin

304 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced

Description

In this study, the author asks why, throughout recorded history, have various religious groups felt the need for apocalyptic readings of history. The book ranges from the growth of the Mormons to the practice of cryonics.

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