Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
Contents
Introduction : first words on last things -- Signs of the times : the dispensational background of evangelical prophecy belief -- Reluctant rebels : the left behind novels and the politics of evangelical identity -- The emergence of the network culture/beast system -- Technologies of transcendence : "beast religion" and the deification/demonization of the network culture -- Marks of the beast : the struggle for evangelical identity -- Beast, Inc. : evangelical resistance and the internalization of evil.