End of the World and Apocalypticism

RELT21082 End of the World and Apocalypticism 20 Semester 2 Undergraduate Level 2 Andrew Boakye Unit coordinator Religions & Theology 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 This course provides knowledge and analytical tools to understand and assess apocalyptic movements, the use of apocalyptic ideas and imagery in contemporary culture, and the effects of apocalyptic thought in politics and elsewhere. The course runs from examination of the biblical roots of much apocalyptic thought, via analysis of a range of historic apocalyptic groups, to present-day culture and politics. This course provides knowledge and analytical tools to understand and assess apocalyptic movements, the use of apocalyptic ideas and imagery in contemporary culture, and the effects of apocalyptic thought in politics and elsewhere. The course runs from examination of the biblical roots of much apocalyptic thought, via analysis of a range of historic apocalyptic groups, to present-day culture and politics. <ul><li>To explore and analyse texts and movements that focus beliefs or expression either on the end of the world or on other dramatic events conceptualised in end-of-the-world terms</li><li>To analyse how movements, texts and uses are expressed in ‘apocalyptic’ vocabulary and imagery</li><li>To explore and analyse cultural, social and political uses and effects of the above</li><li>To provide an opportunity for researching and presenting on the above. </li></ul> By the end of this course unit you should normally be able to<ul><li>Discuss the term ‘apocalyptic’ and describe typical features of apocalyptic ideas, texts and images</li><li>Describe a range of movements that have focused on end-of-the-world ideas or language</li><li>Discuss and contextualise key apocalyptic texts from biblical and other sources</li><li>Describe a range of historical or current uses or effects of apocalyptic ideas or imagery</li></ul> <ul><li>Analyse apocalyptic movements, especially through contextualising them and understanding patterns and sources of apocalyptic ideas and related practices</li><li>Analyse use of apocalyptic ideas and imagery in cultural artefacts such as films and books</li><li>Analyse biblical and other religious apocalyptic texts, especially by putting them in the context in which they were written</li></ul> <ul><li>Extract evidence of apocalyptic elements in cultural artefacts such as films or books</li><li>Extract evidence of apocalyptic elements in reports of movements and groups</li><li>Make clear presentations of results of research on apocalyptic movements or cultural artefacts</li></ul> <ul><li>Analyse films, reports and other sources</li><li>Discuss in groups on controversial topics</li><li>Engage empathetically with beliefs and actions of groups that are sharply different from mainstream society</li><li>Engage empathetically with beliefs and actions of societies, or sections of societies, that proceed on assumptions sharply different from yours.</li></ul> Other This course helps prepare students to work in contexts where they encounter beliefs, practices and cultural artefacts that may be sharply alien to them (or which, conversely, may be taken for granted by them). It prepares students to produce, engage with, and assess reports on such beliefs, practices and artefacts in an empathetic but analytical and effective manner. 11 x two-hour interactive lectures, including study of texts, documentary clips, film clips, etc. 11 x one-hour seminars, including individual or small group (you choose whether individual or group) research project and presentation on an apocalyptic movement or cultural artefact(s) of your choice. c.7 hours of viewing films and documentaries and listening to accounts relating to apocalyptic movements or cultural artefacts. 0 Other 100% <figure class="table"><table><tbody><tr><td>Assessment Task</td><td>Formative or Summative</td><td>Weighting</td></tr><tr><td>Individual or small group presentation on an apocalyptic movement or cultural artefact(s) + outline and bibliography for summative work </td><td>Formative</td><td>0%</td></tr><tr><td>Report or portfolio on the apocalyptic movement or cultural artefact(s) studies for the formative assessment </td><td>Summative</td><td>75%</td></tr><tr><td>Examination </td><td>Summative</td><td>25%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:662px;" width="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Feedback method</td> <td style="width:340px;"> Formative or Summative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Peer and Seminar leader oral feedback on presentation</td> <td style="width:340px;"> Formative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Written feedback on report/portfolio outline and bibliography</td> <td style="width:340px;"> Formative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;height:7px;"> Written feedback on report/portfolio</td> <td style="width:340px;height:7px;"> Summative and formative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;height:7px;"> Written feedback on examination</td> <td style="width:340px;height:7px;"> Summative and formative</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:168px;"> Available on which programme(s)?</td> <td style="width:494px;"> BA Religions and TheologyBA Philosophy and Religion(BA Theological Studies in Philosophy and Ethics)BA Comparative Religion and Social Anthropology</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  Y  A wide range of online resources are available at the web-site of the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM): <a href="https://censamm.org/resources">https://censamm.org/resources </a>Colin McAllister, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature (Camb.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020) <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=alma992980719952701631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992980719952701631</a> The Bible (preferably New Revised Standard Version, with Apocrypha [Oxford: OUP, 2006]) Available for use on the web via various religious web-sites such as: <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible">https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-NRSV-Bible</a>/ or <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/nrs/">https://www.biblestudytools.com/nrs/ </a>Filiu, Jean-Pierre, Apocalypse in Islam, translated by M.B. DeBevoise (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013) online (1 hour use): <a href="https://archive.org/details/apocalypseinisla0000fili/page/n23/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/apocalypseinisla0000fili/page/n23/mode/2up</a> print copy: <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma9933365954401631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma9933365954401631 </a>John Hall. Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 2009) <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992975951094301631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992975951094301631</a> Arthur H. Williamson. Apocalypse Then: Prophecy and the Making of the Modern World (Westport: Praeger, 2008) <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992982180675001631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992982180675001631 </a>Monica Germanà and Aristeidis Mousoutzanis, eds., Apocalyptic discourse in contemporary culture : post-millennial perspectives on the end of the world (New York: Routledge, 2014) <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1rfd42k/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781315883861">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1rfd42k/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781315883861 </a>Anthony F. Aveni, Apocalyptic anxiety : religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world (Boulder CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016) <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992976654139301631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma99297665413930163</a>1 Adele Reinhartz. Bible and Cinema: An Introduction (Routledge, 2013) <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992976146434901631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992976146434901631</a> Crawford Gribben. Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America. Oxford: OUP, 2009 <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992975879560101631">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992975879560101631 </a>Walliss, Aston. “Doomsday America: The Pessimistic Turn of Post-9/11 Apocalyptic Cinema.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 23.1 (2011): 53–64. <a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1rfd42k/cdi_proquest_journals">https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1rfd42k/cdi_proquest_journ Lectures 22 Seminars 11 0 167