Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism -- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? -- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism -- Apocalypse at the millennium -- "The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films -- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime -- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture -- "The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction -- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media -- Index.