@article{ref1,
title="Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time",
journal="American ethnologist",
year="2007",
author="Guyer, Jane I.",
volume="34",
number="3",
pages="409-421",
abstract="A view from 1950s and 1960s Britain suggests that the public culture of temporality in the United States has shifted from a consequential focus on reasoning toward the near future to a combination of response to immediate situations and orientation to a very long-term horizon. This temporal perspective is most marked in the public rhetoric of macroeconomics, but it also corresponds in remarkable ways to evangelicals' views of time. In this article, I trace the optionality and consonance of this shift toward the relative evacuation of the near future in religion and economics by examining different theoretical positions within each domain. In conclusion, I suggest that the near future is being reinhabited by forms of punctuated time, such as the dated schedules of debt and other specific event-driven temporal frames.<p />",
language="",
issn="0094-0496",
doi="10.1525/ae.2007.34.3.409",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.3.409"
}