The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
Publisher: Oxford; Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780195301052
Description: 'The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism' offers readers an in-depth look at both the theoretical underpinnings of the study of millennialism and its many manifestations across history and cultures.
Table of contents: title: Millennialism in cross-cultural perspective / Catherine Wessinger; title: Catastrophic millennialism / Eugene V. Gallagher; title: Progressive millennialism / W. Michael Ashcroft; title: Avertive apocalypticism / Daniel Wojcik; title: Nativist millennialism / Jean E. Rosenfeld; title: Charismatic leadership in millennial movements / Lorne L. Dawson; title: Millennialism, Scripture, and tradition / Eugene V. Gallagher; title: Prophetic failure in millennial movements / Lorne L. Dawson; title: Gender roles, sexuality, and children in millennial movements / Melissa M. Wilcox; title: Millennial visions and conflict with society / David G. Bromley, Catherine Wessinger; title: Fragile millennial communities and violence / John Walliss; title: Ancient Near Eastern millennialism / Robert Gnuse; title: Ancient Jewish and early Christian millennialism / James D. Tabor; title: Early Islamic and classical Sunni and Shiʻite apocalyptic movements / David Cook; title: European millennialism / Rebecca Moore; title: Chinese millennial movements / Scott Lowe; title: Korean millennial movements / Robert Pearson Flaherty; title: Japanese millennial movements / Helen Hardacre; title: Millenarian elements in the Hindu religious traditions / Hugh B. Urban; title: Millennial and apocalyptic movements in Africa / Rosalind I.J. Hackett; title: Millennialism in the Caribbean / Barry Chevannes; title: Pacific millennial movements / Garry W. Trompf; title: Native American geopolitical, georestorative movements / Michelene E. Pesantubbee; title: Babi and Bahaʼi millennialism / Peter Smith, William P. Collins; title: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American millennialisms / Jon R. Stone; title: Christian dispensationalism / Glenn W. Shuck; title: National Socialist millennialism / David Redles; title: Modern Catholic millennialism / Massimo Introvigne; title: New Age millennialism / Phillip Charles Lucas; title: UFOs, ETs, and the millennial imagination / Robert Pearson Flaherty; title: Millennium, apocalypse, and American popular culture / Douglas E. Cowan; title: Environmental millennialism / Robin Globus, Bron Taylor; title: Millennialism on the radical right in America / Michael Barkun; title: Radical millennial movements in contemporary Judaism in Israel / Yaakov Ariel; title: Millennialism and radical Islamist movements / Jeffrey T. Kenney; title: Millennial glossary / compiled by Catherine Wessinger