The End of Time - Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium

Informationen zum Autor Damian Thompson Klappentext Damian Thompson highly evocative brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the massacre at Waco the Solar Temple suicides the Japanese subway gas attack UFOs angelic visitors and other apparently unrelated phenomena and places them in the context of the dawning of a new world at the time of the millennium. This is the revised updated edition in which Damian Thompson tackles subjects such as the millennium dome and the millennium bug; rejacketed by Vintage for the lead-up to the year 2 000. Zusammenfassung Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the massacre at Waco, the Solar Temple suicides, the Japanese subway gas attack, UFOs, angelic visitors and other apparently unrelated phenomena and places them in the context of the dawning of a new world at the time of the millennium. This is the revised, updated edition in which Damian Thompson tackles subjects such as the millennium dome and the millennium bug; rejacketed by Vintage for the lead-up to the year 2, 000.

Product details

• Authors: Damian Thompson
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1999
• EAN: 9780099289432
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928943-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Science: general issues, SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge