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1 online resource (xv, 388 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions,
0169-8834 ;
vol. 86
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Studies in the history of religions ; 86.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / A.I. Baumgarten -- End of time and new time in medieval Chinese Buddhism / H. Seiwert -- Apocalypticism, symbolic breakdown and paranoia: an application of Lifton's model to the death-rebirth fantasy / M. Hazani -- The apocalyptic year 200/815-816 and the events surrounding it / D. Cook -- I am not the Mahdi, but ... / P. Heine -- The development of Essenic eschatology / A. Steudel -- Innere Zeit und apokalyptische Zeit / A. Agus -- Dating the Eschaton: Jewish and Christian apocalyptic calculations in late antiquity / O. Irshai -- 'The time of the end': apocalypticism and its spiritualization in Abraham Abulafia's eschatology / M. Idel -- Breaking the boundaries of time and space in kabbalistic apocalypticism / R. Elior -- Abnormal and normal time: after the apocalypse / G. Motzkin -- Why Lubavitch wants the messiah now: religious immigration as a cause of millenarianism / A. Szubin -- The moral apocalypse in Byzantium / J. Baun -- Cognitive dissonance and proselytism: an application of Festinger's model to thirteenth-century Joachites / E. Wardi -- Awaiting the last days ... myth and disenchantment / J. Fried -- Apocalyptic space / M. Barasch -- The restoration of Israel as messianic birth pangs / H. Kippenberg -- When prophecy fails and when it succeeds: apocalyptic prediction and re-entry into ordinary time / S. O'Leary -- Memory and the metamorphosis of apocalyptic time in an Italian millenarian movement: the case of David Lazzaretti and his followers / G. Filoramo. |
| Summary |
The theme of this volume is the nature and perception of time in millennial movements. The authors adopt a number of disciplinary approaches to the topic, analyzing millennial movements from the three Abrahamic faiths, as well as from the East. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eschatology -- Congresses.
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Eschatology. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Baumgarten, Albert I.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Apocalyptic time. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000 9004118799 (DLC) 00029731 (OCoLC)43708515 |
| ISBN |
1417590882 (electronic book) |
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9781417590889 (electronic book) |
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9004118799 (alkaline paper) |
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9789004118799 (alkaline paper) |
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9047400569 |
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9789047400561 |
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