When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture

5 best books like When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Paul S. Boyer): Preaching, Mental Floss presents In the Beginning: From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens, The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior

Preaching

Author	Fred B. Craddock
ISBN	0687336481

Preaching was the kind of book that stands the test of time as a textbook on a subject. However, perhaps it would be better served if I first understood its goal rather than coming in with preconceived notions about what it would be and to find myself dissatisfied at the end. I believed it to be a textbook...

Mental Floss presents In the Beginning: From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything

Author

Will Pearson

Sure, you know all about the birds and bees. But did Dad ever tell you that it wasn't a stork that put that shiny can opener in your kitchen drawer? Or paperclips started out as proud, Nazi-fighting warriors? And did he tell you how cruise control was originally conceived by a blind genius? From mullets...

The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Author	Windsor Mann
ISBN	0306819589

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk...

The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

Author	Allan Lazar
ISBN	0061132217

Supposedly a discussion of “How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History”—to quote the rather lengthy subtitle—this book instead presents 101 explanations of who 101 characters are—there’s...

The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior

Author

Sarah Kendzior

In this collection of essays, St. Louis journalist Sarah Kendzior tackles issues including labor exploitation, racism, gentrification, media bias and other aspects of the post-employment economy. Sample titles: "The Peril of Hipster Economics", "The Wrong Kind of Caucasian", "Survival is Not...