Faith, Fallout, and the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction in the Early Postwar Era
In the early postwar era, from 1945 to 1960, Americans confronted a dilemma that had never been faced before. In the new atomic age, which opened with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945, they now had to grapple with maintaining their faith in a peaceful and prospero...
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Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 7 |
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a canticle for Leibowitz
B atomic war B the shrinking man B Apocalypse B atomic age B postwar B Evangelism B on the beach B Faith B social science fiction B Nineteen eighty-four B Cold War B faith in the future B shadow on the hearth B Fahrenheit 451 B atomic bomb |
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| 520 | |a In the early postwar era, from 1945 to 1960, Americans confronted a dilemma that had never been faced before. In the new atomic age, which opened with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945, they now had to grapple with maintaining their faith in a peaceful and prosperous future while also controlling their fear of an apocalyptic future resulting from an atomic war. Americans’ subsequent search for reassurance translated into a dramatic increase in church membership and the rise of the evangelical movement. Yet, their fear of an atomic war with the Soviet Union and possible nuclear apocalypse did not abate. This article discusses how six post-apocalyptic science fiction novels dealt with this dilemma and presented their visions of the future; more important, it argues that these novels not only reflect the views of many Americans in the early Cold War era, but also provide relevant insights into the role of religion during these complex and controversial years to reframe the belief that an apocalypse was inevitable. | ||
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