Apocalyptic anxiety: religion, science and America's obsession with the end of the world

Part 1: Episode 1, October 22, 1844. Millerites and the biblical end of the world; A brief history of apocalyptic thinking in the west

Part 2: American apocalypse. From Columbus to the great awakenings; Fin de siecle secular perfectionism; Spiritualism and the veiled synthesis of science and religion

Part 3: New age religion and science. The age of aquarius; Techno-angels of the alien advent; Resurgent christian dispensationalism and the end of time in popular media; Astronomical world age theories resurrected

Part 4: Episode 2, December 21, 2012. The fathers of Y12 prophecy; 2012 and the perennial philosophy; Ancient galactic wisdom and 2012 Mayanism.