Examination of the way religious and nonreligious
human beings have sought to make sense of their
world through apocalyptic speculation; exploration
of the special relationship between end-time
speculation and religious thought and practice.
Sources include literature ranging from ancient
Mesopotamian apocalypses to Zora Neale Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God, art and
architecture from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon to
Garden Grove's Crystal (now Christ) Cathedral, and
expressions of popular culture from ancient Greek
curse tablets to "Zombieland."