Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements
Redaktion: Robbins, Thomas; Palmer, Susan J.

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136049989
• Artikelnr.: 39960021

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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;