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Title:

Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem : contemporary apocalyptic movements / edited by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Millennialism--North America--History--20oth century.
End of the world--History of doctrines--20th century.
Violence--History of doctrines--History of doctrines--20th century.
North America--Religion--20th century.

Other Authors:

Robbins, Thomas, 1943-
Palmer, Susan J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Section one. Theories of Apocalypticism. Constructing Apocalypticism : social and cultural elements of radical organization / David G. Bromley ; Millennialism with and without the mayhem / Catherine Wessinger ; The Apocalypse of modernity / James A. Aho ; Fifteen years of failed prophecy : coping with cognitive dissonance in a Baha'i sect / Barbara Lynn Mahnke and Vanessa Morrison -- Section two. Secularizing the Millennium. Secularizing the Millennium : survivalists, militias, and the new world order / Philip Lamy ; Environmental Apocalypse : the millennial ideology of "Earth First!" / Martha F. Lee ; Technological millenarianism in the United States / John W. Bozeman ; Woman as world savior : the feminization of the Millennium in new religious movements / Susan J. Palmer -- Section three. Apocalypticism and the churches. The vengeful Virgin : case studies in contemporary American Catholic Apocalypticism / Michael W. Cuneo ; Christian reconstructionism and the angry rhetoric of Neo-Postmillennialism / Anson Shupe ; The persistence of Apocalypticism within a denominationalizing sect : the Apocalyptic fringe groups of Seventh Day Adventism / Ronald Lawson ; Latter day revisited : contemporary Mormon Millenarianism / Massimo Introvigne -- Section four. Violence and confrontation. Millenarians and violence : the case of the Christian identity movement / Michael Barkun ; Religious totalism, exemplary dualism, and the Waco tragedy / Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins ; The mystical Apocalypse of the Solar temple / John R. Hall and Philip Schuyler ; Aum Shinrikyō as an Apocalyptic movement / Mark R. Mullins.

ISBN:

9780415916493 (pb)
0415916496 (pb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36727121

LCCN:

97012408

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon) — 291.23 M611

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)