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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, October 24, 2024 4:00 pm to 6:0
 0 pm \n MN 3230 (Collaborative Research Space) \n UTM Campus \n\nSpeakers 
 \nRachel Wagner (Ithaca College) \n\nDescription: \nThe cowboy apocalypse 
 has been relayed through film, video games, and television shows, as we
 ll as through rituals, live events, and scripted practices to produce an
  imaginary space for devoted fans who buy into its troubling ideology. As 
 a blend of frontier mythology and end-of-the world scenarios, transmediat
 ed cowboy apocalypticism provides a simple mythic solution to complex glob
 al problems. Violently wipe the slate clean, it says, and let the surviv
 ors demonstrate their mettle on a new frontier. The greatest danger, of c
 ourse, is when the desire for future habitation in an imaginary post-apoc
 alyptic frontier is used to justify real violence here and now.RegisterRac
 hel Wagner is Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair of the Department
  of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. Her essays have been publis
 hed in CrossCurrents Magazine, Canopy Forum, the Journal of the American
  Academy of Religion, and Religion Dispatches. Her first book, Godwired:
  Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality (Routledge, 2012), is a study of 
 digital religion. Her most recent book, Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and t
 he Myth of the Vigilante Messiah (NYU Press, 2025), charts the myth of t
 he “good guy with a gun,” connecting America’s frontier beginnings with v
 isions of the end of the world. \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of Historical St
 udies 'Past Sense' History and Religion Lecture Series \nUTM Campus \n\nCa
 tegories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U of T CommunityGraduate Students
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LOCATION:UTM Campus
SUMMARY:'Cowboy Apocalypse: 13 Ways of Looking at a Gun'
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 ays-looking-gun
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