Author: Grant Underwood
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: mormonism, world, millenarian
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0252068262
ISBN-13: 9780252068263

The most detailed study yet of early Mormon thought about the "end times," "The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism" shows how Mormon views of Christ’s imminent second coming exerted a profound influence on Mormonism between 1830 and 1846. By exploring how early LDS interpretation of the Bible and the Book of Mormon affected, and was affected by Mormon millennial doctrines, Grant Underwood provides the first comprehensive linkage of the history of early Mormonism and millennial thought. He also probes LDS perceptions of the institutions and values prevalent before the Civil War, reasses

Author: Gustavo Gorriti
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: america, translation, traduccion, traducao, latin, peru, path, history, millenarian, war, shining
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-02-22
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0807846767
ISBN-13: 9780807846766

First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas’ opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde’s reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized insurgency forced itself upon an unwilling s

Author: G. W. Trompf
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: movements, religious, religion, society, new, transoceanic, cults, millenarian, cargo, comparisons
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1990-07
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 3110121662
ISBN-13: 9783110121667