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Paperback Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements Book

ISBN: 0415916496

ISBN13: 9780415916493

Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements

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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...

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Robbins and Palmer have assembled a fine anthology, with papers ranging from the highly theoretical to the purely descriptive. The selections give the reader a thorough and systematic introduction to the varied apocalyptic movements, secular and religious, out there.
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