Description: Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem : Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements, Hardcover by Robbins, Thomas (EDT); Palmer, Susan J. (EDT), ISBN 0415916488, ISBN-13 9780415916486, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US As we approach the Millennium, apocalyptic expectations are rising in North America and throughout the world. Beyond the symbolic aura of the millennium, this excitation is fed by currents of unsettling social and cultural change. The millennial myth ingrained in American culture is continually generating new movements, which draw upon the myth and also reshape and reconstruct it. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem examines many types of apocalypticism such as economic, racialist, environmental, feminist, as well as those erupting from established churches. Many of these movements are volatile and potentially explosive. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem brings together scholars of apocalyptic and millennial groups to explore aspects of the contemporary apocalyptic fervor in all orginal contributions. Opening with a discussion of various theories of apocalypticism, the editors then analyze how millennialist movements have gained ground in largely secular societal circles. Section three discusses the links between apocalypticism and established churches, while the final part of th looks at examples of violence and confrontation, from Waco to Solar Temple to the Aum Shinri Kyo subway disaster in Japan. Contributors: James Aho, Dick Anthony, Robert Balch, Michael Barkun, John Bozeman, David Bromley, Michael Cuneo, John Dimitrovich, John Hall, Massimo Introvigne, Philip Lamy, Ronald Lawson, Martha Lee, Barbara Lynn Mahnke, Vanessa Morrison, Mark Mullins, Ansun Shupe, Susan Palmer, Thomas Robbins, Philip Schuyler and Catherine Wessinger.
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Book Title: Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem : Contemporary Apocalyptic Movem
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem : Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Anthropology / General, History, Eschatology
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 6 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Author: Susan J. Palmer
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Hardcover
