Confirmation of Prophecy by Proxy: Audience Anticipation and Reception of the 2014 Movie Left Behind and its Relevance to the Dispensational Premillennialist Worldview

Confirmation of Prophecy by Proxy: Audience Anticipation and Reception of the 2014 Movie Left Behind and its Relevance to the Dispensational Premillennialist Worldview

Media has the potential to legitimize or spread a belief system to the general public. The 2014 movie Left Behind is an example of a deliberate attempt at promoting the belief system referred to as dispensational premillennialism (DPM), or belief in the imminent rapture of Christians. Producers of L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, Andrew R
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2015
Subjects:
rapture
millenarian movements
dispensationalism
eschatology
millenarianism
Left Behind
Christian Denominations and Sects
Communication Technology and New Media
Critical and Cultural Studies
New Religious Movements
Other Film and Media Studies
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Social Influence and Political Communication
Social Psychology and Interaction
Sociology of Culture
Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2019
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3077&context=td

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http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3077&context=td

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