Prophecy in the New Millennium

When Prophecies Persist
Herausgeber: Harvey, Sarah; Newcombe, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume gives a concise but comprehensive overview of the rich diversity of prophecy, its role in major world religions as well as in new religions and alternative spiritualities, its social dynamics and its impact on individualsà â â lives. Academic analyses are complemented with contextualized primary source testimonies of those who live and have lived within a prophetic framework.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781409449966
• ISBN-10: 1409449963
• Artikelnr.: 40288523

Autorenporträt

Sarah Harvey, MSc is a Research Officer at Inform where she has worked since 2001. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester in Comparative Religion and Social Anthropology and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Social Research Methods (Sociology). She is also currently a PhD student at the University of Kent researching the natural childbirth movement. At Inform, her research focuses on Pagan religions, new Christian movements, the 'new age' milieu and 2012 prophecies. She has recently guest edited a special issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. Dr. Suzanne Newcombe is a Research Officer at Inform where she has worked since 2002. She is also an Associate Lecturer for the Open University in the East of England and has lectured in the field of new and alternative religious movements at Kingston University. Her PhD research at the University of Cambridge explored the popularization and development of yoga and Ayurvedic medicine in Britain. She continues to be active in research networks in this area and has published articles in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, Religion Compass and Asian Medicine, as well as contributing chapters to a number of edited books.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 From the Extraordinary to the Ordinary: An Overview of Prophecy,
Suzanne Newcombe, Sarah Harvey; Part 1 Perspectives on Prophecy; Chapter 2
Messages from Beyond: Prophecy in the Contemporary World, Michael Barkun;
Chapter 3 Prophecy: Social Scientific Perspectives and Lubavitch, Simon
Dein; Chapter 4 Prophecy on the Margins: A Case Study of the Apocalypse in
Later Seventeenth-Century England, Warren Johnston; Chapter 5 Prophecy: A
Perspective from the Early Church and the Contemporary Experience of a
Methodist Minister, Andrew Maguire; Part 2 Perennial Prophecy in Mainstream
Traditions; Chapter 6 The New Apostolic Reformation: Main Street Mystics
and Everyday Prophets, Margaret M. Poloma, Matthew T. Lee; Chapter 7 The
Mahdi and the End-Times in Islam, Hugh Beattie; Chapter 8 The Coming Golden
Age: On Prophecy in Hinduism, Luis González-Reimann; Chapter 9 Divination,
Prophecy and Oracles in Tibetan Buddhism, Christopher Bell; Chapter 10
Chasing the Horizon: Prophecy in Secular Contexts, Wendy M. Grossman; Part
3 Contemporary Case Studies; Chapter 11 Living in the Time of the End: A
Personal Commentary from My Experiences with the Children of God and the
Family International, Abi Freeman May; Chapter 12 Mormonism and The Family
International: Toward a Theory of Prophecy in the Development of New
Religious Movements, Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd; Chapter 13 The
Dispensation of Providence: Growing Up as a Blessed Child in the
Unification Church, Hani Zaccarelli; Chapter 14 Waco: Living Prophecy,
Livingstone Fagan; Chapter 15 (Always) Living in the End-Times: The
'Rolling Prophecy' of the Conspiracy Milieu, David G. Robertson; Part 4
2012 Prophecies; Chapter 16 From Mushrooms to the Stars: 2012 and the
Apocalyptic Milieu, Andrew Fergus Wilson; Chapter 17 Viral Email and the
2012 Apocalypse Contagion: Seven Reasons Why the World WON'T End in 2012,
Kristine Larsen; Chapter 18 Remembering the Future: 2012 as Planetary
Transition 1 This paper is based on a talk given at the Inform Seminar, New
Religions and Prophecy, held at the London School of Economics, 22 November
2008 and has been supplemented with material taken from a
www.dkfoundation.co.uk web-page, 'The Particular: Where We Are Now',
written for web site readers June 2011., Suzanne Rough; Chapter 19 2012 and
the Revival of the New Age Movement: The Mayan Calendar and the Cultic
Milieu in Switzerland, Jean-François Mayer; Chapter 20 Looking into the
Future: Why Prophecies Will Persist, J. Gordon Melton;