Author: Prof. Frederic J. Baumgartner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: civilization, western, millennialism, history, longing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-03
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0312238347
ISBN-13: 9780312238346

Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven’s Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sec

Authors:Richard Connors, Andrew Colin Gow,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: history, christian, thought, studies, millerites, american, millennialism, milton, anglo
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2004-05
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9004138218
ISBN-13: 9789004138216

Neither the meliorist political culture of the nascent American republic nor its later drift toward apocalyptically tinged ’fundamentalist’ Protestantism and dispensationalism can be explained outside the context of the shared Anglo-American traditions and practices of millennial expectation and apocalyptic angst--whether expressed by early colonists, Milton, Blake, Miller or the Continental Congress. In this chronologically direct and thematically varied volume, five scholars working in three distinct disciplines (Religion, English literature, and History) approach millennialism a

Author: Michael Barkun
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: violence, political, series, cass, millennialism
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1996-04-30
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 071464708X
ISBN-13: 9780714647081

As the world approaches the year 2000, many societies are experiencing an unprecedented growth in millenarian movements that anticipate an imminent and total transformation of the world. Many of these movements have been associated with violence, either as a means for producing change or as a response to confrontations with state authority. This book draws together research on this topic from political science, psychology, sociology and history in an attempt to understand the relationship between millenarian movements and episodes of violence.

Author: Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: russia, ukraine, woodrow, wilson, press, center, southern, sects, lost, reformation, peasants, millennialism, radical
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-07-02
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0801879159
ISBN-13: 9780801879159

Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Russia’s Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, studies the origins and evolution of the theology and practices of these radicals and their contribution to an alternative culture in the region. Arising from a confluence of immigrant Anabaptists from central Europe and native Russian religious dissident movements, the new sects shared characteristics with both their antecedents

Authors:Nicholas Robins, Nicholas A. Robins,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: rebellion, peru, upper, millennialism, genocide
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2002-04
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 027597569X
ISBN-13: 9780275975692

Exploring one of the least studied genocides in post-conquest South America, Robins calls into question many of the central assumptions currently held by genocide scholars. Victims of genocide usually lack the organization and weaponry to battle their enemies. During the 1780-1782 Great Rebellion in Peru and Upper Peru (now Bolivia), however, the Indian revolutionaries faced the better-organized and armed loyalist army. Whereas genocidal policies are usually characterized by centralized leadership, the Great Rebellion was highly fragmented and confederational in nature, undercutting the widely

Authors:Kenneth G. C. Newport, Kenneth G. C. Newport, Crawfo
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Keywords: context, historical, social, millennialism, expecting
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1932792384
ISBN-13: 9781932792386

Jesus’ promise that "the end" draws near has spawned an expectation of that grand event across various religious groups. This volume examines the abiding social issues that surround the continued presence of apocalyptic anticipation by setting them in historical, present-day, and future manifestations. Approaching this fervent expectation from a broad perspective, Gribben and Newport explore the contemporary movements with insightful analysis that provokes discussion and even self-reflection.