Section three discusses the links between apocalypticism and established churches, while the final part of the book looks at examples of violence and confrontation, from Waco to Solar Temple to the Aum Shinri Kyo subway disaster in Japan. Contributors include: James Aho, Dick Anthony, Robert Balch, Michael Barkun, John Bozeman, David Bromley, Michael Cuneo, John Hall, Massimo Introvigne, Philip Lamy, Ronald Lawson, Martha Lee, Mark Mullins, Anson Shupe, Susan Palmer, Thomas Robbins, Philip Schuyler Catherine Wessinger First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…mehr
Section three discusses the links between apocalypticism and established churches, while the final part of the book looks at examples of violence and confrontation, from Waco to Solar Temple to the Aum Shinri Kyo subway disaster in Japan. Contributors include: James Aho, Dick Anthony, Robert Balch, Michael Barkun, John Bozeman, David Bromley, Michael Cuneo, John Hall, Massimo Introvigne, Philip Lamy, Ronald Lawson, Martha Lee, Mark Mullins, Anson Shupe, Susan Palmer, Thomas Robbins, Philip Schuyler Catherine WessingerFirst Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Thomas Robbins is an independent sociologist of Religion. He is the author of Cults, Converts and Charisma (1988) and has co-edited numerous books, among them In Gods WeTrust (1990) and Between Sacred and Secular (1994). Susan J. Palmer teaches at Dawson College and Concordia University and specializes in new religious movements. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers,Rajneesh Lovers and AIDS as an Apocalyptic Metaphor.
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INTRODUCATION Patterns of Contemporary Apocalypticism in North America Thomas Robbins Susan J. Palmer; Part 1 Theories of Apocalypticism; Chapter 1 Constructing Apocalypticism David G. Bromley; Chapter 2 Millennialism With and Without the Mayhem Catherine Wessinger; Chapter 3 The Apocalypse of Modernity James A. Aho; Chapter 4 Fifteen Years of Failed Prophecy Robert W. Balch John Domitrovich Barbara Lynn Mahnke Vanessa Morrison; Part 2 Secularizing the Millennium; Chapter 5 Secularizing the Millennium Philip Lamy; Chapter 6 Environmental Apocalypse Martha F. Lee; Chapter 7 Technological Millenarianism in the United States John M. Bozeman; Chapter 8 Woman as World Savior Susan J. Palmer; Part 3 Apocalypticism and the Churches; Chapter 9 The Vengeful Virgin Michael W. Cuneo; Chapter 10 Christian Reconstructionism and the Angry Rhetoric of Neo-postmillennialism AnsonShupe; Chapter 11 The Persistence of Apocalypticism Within a Denominationalizing Sect Ronald Lawson; Chapter 12 Latter Day Revisited Massimo Introvigne; Part 4 Violence and Confrontation; Chapter 13 Millenarians and Violence Michael Barkun; Chapter 14 Religious Totalism Exemplary Dualism and the Waco Tragedy Dick Anthony Thomas Robbins; Chapter 15 The Mystical Apocalypse of the Solar Temple John R. Hall Philip Schuyler; Chapter 16 Aum Shmnky? as an Apocalyptic Movement Mark R. Mullins]Contributors Index;
INTRODUCATION Patterns of Contemporary Apocalypticism in North America Thomas Robbins Susan J. Palmer; Part 1 Theories of Apocalypticism; Chapter 1 Constructing Apocalypticism David G. Bromley; Chapter 2 Millennialism With and Without the Mayhem Catherine Wessinger; Chapter 3 The Apocalypse of Modernity James A. Aho; Chapter 4 Fifteen Years of Failed Prophecy Robert W. Balch John Domitrovich Barbara Lynn Mahnke Vanessa Morrison; Part 2 Secularizing the Millennium; Chapter 5 Secularizing the Millennium Philip Lamy; Chapter 6 Environmental Apocalypse Martha F. Lee; Chapter 7 Technological Millenarianism in the United States John M. Bozeman; Chapter 8 Woman as World Savior Susan J. Palmer; Part 3 Apocalypticism and the Churches; Chapter 9 The Vengeful Virgin Michael W. Cuneo; Chapter 10 Christian Reconstructionism and the Angry Rhetoric of Neo-postmillennialism AnsonShupe; Chapter 11 The Persistence of Apocalypticism Within a Denominationalizing Sect Ronald Lawson; Chapter 12 Latter Day Revisited Massimo Introvigne; Part 4 Violence and Confrontation; Chapter 13 Millenarians and Violence Michael Barkun; Chapter 14 Religious Totalism Exemplary Dualism and the Waco Tragedy Dick Anthony Thomas Robbins; Chapter 15 The Mystical Apocalypse of the Solar Temple John R. Hall Philip Schuyler; Chapter 16 Aum Shmnky? as an Apocalyptic Movement Mark R. Mullins]Contributors Index;
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