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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of 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;
About the author
Thomas Robbins is an independent sociologist of Religion. He is the author of Cults, Converts and Charisma (1988) and has co-edited numerous books, among them In Gods WeTrust (1990) and Between Sacred and Secular (1994). Susan J. Palmer teaches at Dawson College and Concordia University and specializes in new religious movements. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers,Rajneesh Lovers and AIDS as an Apocalyptic Metaphor.
Summary
The "millennial myth" is continually generating new movements, which draw upon the myth and also reshape and reconstruct it. This text examines many types of apocolypticism such as economic, racialist, environmental, feminist, as well as those erupting from established churches.
