American Apocalyptic - Beliefs, Rituals, and Expressions of Doomsday Culture in the Us - Juli L Gittinger
In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and politics in a way that is particular to the US and consonant with mythological-historical narratives of America. As a result, we can identify American apocalypticism as a sort of religion in itself that is closely tied to \civil religion,\ that has a worldview and rituals that create identifiable communities and connects American mythology to apocalyptic..