Popular culture takes its eschatological themes and myths from two different sources.
The first comes from its very strong Christian background, and is noticeable in any of its apocalyptic tales. An uncountable number of books and movies tell about wars between good and evil of armageddonesque proportion, or of natural disaster. This has a redeeming effect, the face of human society is changed for the better. An utopia can be reached.
The second is greatly influenced by globalization and the mixing of cultures, according to Cobb, and concerns the spirits of the dead that roam around us. When people die, they have a period of “purgatory”, their spirits haunt the physical world to free themselves of unfinished tasks or of the last bounds that hold them to Earth, to finally reach the other world.
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