Waiting for Antichrist: Charisma and Apocalypse in a Pentecostal Church

by Damian Thompson

How can people believe that the supernatural end of the world lies just around the corner when, so far, every such prediction has been proved wrong? Some scholars argue that millenarians are psychologically disturbed; others maintain that their dreams of paradise on earth reflect a nascent political awareness. In this book Damian Thompson looks at the members of one religious group with a strong apocalyptic tradition--Kensington Temple, a large Pentecostal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195178564
• ISBN13: 9780195178562
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"