Rapture (disambiguation)

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A feeling of ecstatic joy or delight, synonymous with Ecstasy, Rapture or The Rapture may also refer to:

Religion

• Rapture a predicted event in certain systems of Christian eschatology
• Rapture (Buddhism), a common translation of the Pali word piti, which is a factor of meditative absorption

Music

• The Rapture (band), New York City-based rock band
• Rapture (band), Finland-based doom metal band
• Rapture (Anita Baker album), 1986
• Rapture (Bradley Joseph album), 1997
• Rapture (composition), 2000 orchestral composition by Christopher Rouse
• Rapture (Dragonlord album)
• Rapture (Impaled Nazarene album)
• Rapture (The Mavis's album), 2001
• Rapture (Johnny Mathis album)
• Rapture (Trio X album), 1999
• "Rapture" (Blondie song), 1980
• "Rapture" (iiO song), 2001
• "Rapture" (Hurt song)
• "Rapture" (Morbid Angel song)
• The Rapture (album), by Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "Rapture", song by Laura Veirs from her 2004 album Carbon Glacier
• "Rapture", song on Deftones' 2006 album Saturday Night Wrist
• "Rapture", album by Romeo's Daughter, 2012
• "The Rapture", song on Senses Fail's 2006 album Still Searching

Film and television

• The Rapture (film), a 1991 film starring Mimi Rogers
• Rapture (1965 film), starring Dean Stockwell
• "Rapture" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), fifth season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "Rapture" (Battlestar Galactica), episode of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
• Rapture TV, UK television station
• "The Rapture" (Supernatural), an episode of the television series Supernatural

Literature

• Rapture (novel), by David S. Sosnowski
• The Rapture, a 2009 novel by Liz Jensen
• The Rapture (novel), the fifteenth book in the Left Behind series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
• The Rapture (audio drama), audio drama based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who

Video games

• Rapture (video game), a codename for Square Enix's MMORPG video game Final Fantasy XIV
• Rapture (BioShock), a fictitious underwater city

Other fields

• Rapture (engine), the proprietary engine of Iron Realms Entertainment which handles networking issues and supports C-like script

See also

• Rapt (disambiguation)
• Raptor (disambiguation)
• Raptus (disambiguation)
• Rupture (disambiguation)