Rapture (disambiguation)
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Rapture, used by some Christian sects, refers to the End Times when the Redeemed leave the world.
Raptus is the Latin word from which the English word is derived. This word has connotations not fully captured by the English form.
Rapture can also refer to:
Music
- The Rapture, a New York City-based rock band
- The Rapture (album), the name of an album by Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Rapture (album), a 1986 album by Anita Baker
- Rapture (band), a Finland-based Heavy Metal band
- Rapture (song), a 1980 hit single by Blondie
- The title of a 2001 single by New York City-based trance duo IIO
- The title of the opening track from Morbid Angel's album Covenant
- The title of a song by metal band Hurt
Books and radioplays
- Rapture (book), a book by David S. Sosnowski, chronicling the events that happen when angels begin to appear in the modern world
- The Rapture (Doctor Who audio), a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who
- The Rapture (Left Behind), the fifteenth book in the Left Behind series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
- [The Rapture], an online novel by Michael Harold, describing the rapture and end times as lived by its principal character, John Waite.
Films & TV
- Rapture TV, a UK television station
- The Rapture (film), a 1991 film starring Mimi Rogers
Miscellaneous
- Research rapture
- "Rapture of the depths," the nitrogen narcosis that endangers divers
- The title of an apocalyptic role-playing game
- The proprietary engine of Iron Realms Entertainment which handles networking issues and supports the C-like script in which the game is written
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