Religious and secular views on endtime
In: Mellen studies in sociology 42
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In: Mellen studies in sociology 42
In: SUNY series in the sociology of emotions
In: Time & society, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 317-336
ISSN: 1461-7463
Realizing narratives render projected futures knowable as real. Projected futures are intrinsic to forming identity and informing motives. Endtime is a future situated at a critical rupture, an 'end' of a world as we know it within a culturally expected duration. Some prophetic versions provide realizing narratives of endtime as a context for identity that combines expectation and emotion into powerful motivational accounts for believers. Such religious narratives may suggest different futures for believers and non-believers. A pragmatic narrative illustrated by backcasting from preferred futures to present actions suggests that a normative task for contemporary selves is choosing among realizing narratives. A pragmatic turn offers criteria for making future-implicating choices and fashioning a cosmopolitan identity.
In: Humanity & Society, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 3-24
ISSN: 2372-9708
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 73
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 165-183
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 43-62
ISSN: 1552-7441
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 181
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 314
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 215
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 82, Heft 6, S. 1171-1185
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 455-471
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Journal of comparative family studies, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 371-383
ISSN: 1929-9850