• Religion INK.: Tabloid Crucifiction (Whose Apocalypse? When?) (1,488K).....................Robert Luke

Post-modern literary theory and many images taken directly from supermarket tabloids illustrate the
politicoreligious complex underlying popular 20th-century apocalypticism.

• End-Times Prophecies from Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea (36K)......................Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew J. Strathern

Members of indigenous groups of Papua New Guinea, the Duna and the Kawelka, expect the imminent end of the world, influenced by a mix of Christian teachings and traditional beliefs.

• Attitudes Toward The Tragic: a not-so-horribly-biased approach
  to the Heaven's Gate email campaign (769K)................................................Robert Glenn Howard

Examination of actual “recruitment” e-mails from Heaven’s Gate argues against an overly excited media
portraying the group as spiritual online predators.

• Jewish Shock-Troops of the Apocalypse: Antichrist and the End, 1200-1600 (51K).............Andrew Gow

The “inextricable” intertwining of antisemitism and apocalypticism in the later Middle Ages is examined via
selected textual sources dealing with the Antichrist and the role of the Jews in popular, common-knowledge
“last days” scenarios.