基本説明
The final part of the book looks at examples of violence and confrontation, from Waco to Solar Temple to the Aum Shinri Kyo subway disaster in Japan.
Full Description
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 such as economic, racialist, environmental, feminist, as well as those erupting from established churches. Many of these movements are volatile and potentially explosive.
Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem brings together scholars of apocalyptic and millennial groups to explore aspects of the contemporary apocalyptic fervor in all orginal contributions. Opening with a discussion of various theories of apocalypticism, the editors then analyze how millennialist movements have gained ground in largely secular societal circles. Section three discusses the links between apocalypticism and established churches, while the final part of the book looks at examples of violence and confrontation, from Waco to Solar Temple to the Aum Shinri Kyo subway disaster in Japan.
Contributors: James Aho, Dick Anthony, Robert Balch, Michael Barkun, John Bozeman, David Bromley, Michael Cuneo, John Dimitrovich, John Hall, Massimo Introvigne, Philip Lamy, Ronald Lawson, Martha Lee, Barbara Lynn Mahnke, Vanessa Morrison, Mark Mullins, Ansun Shupe, Susan Palmer, Thomas Robbins, Philip Schuyler and Catherine Wessinger.
Contents
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;
