| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| 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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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eschatology -- Congresses
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Eschatology -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Eschatology.
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Eschatology
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Endzeiterwartung
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Apokalyptik
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Eschatologie.
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Apocalyptiek.
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Chiliasme.
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Einde der tijden.
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Eschatologie -- Histoire des doctrines -- Congrès.
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Fin du monde.
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Cosmogonie -- Congrès.
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baumgarten, Albert I.
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| ISBN |
1417590882 |
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9781417590889 |
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9004118799 |
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9789004118799 |
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9047400569 |
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9789047400561 |
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