The Oxford handbook of millennialism / edited by Catherine Wessinger.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 745 pages )

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Series
Oxford handbooks. [More in this series]
Summary note
'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.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Millennialism in cross-cultural perspective / Catherine Wessinger
  • Catastrophic millennialism / Eugene V. Gallagher
  • Progressive millennialism / W. Michael Ashcroft
  • Avertive millennialism / Daniel Wojcik
  • Nativist millennialism / Jean E. Rosefeld
  • Charismatic leadership in millennial movements / Lorne L. Dawson
  • Millennialism, Scripture, and tradition / Eugene V. Gallagher
  • Prophetic failure in millennial movements / Lorne L. Dawson
  • Gender roles, sexuality, and children in millennial movements / Melisa M. Wilcox
  • Millennial visions and conflict with society / David G. Bromley, Catherine Wissinger
  • Fragile millennial communities and violence / John Walliss
  • Ancient Near Eastern millennialism / Robert Gnuse
  • Ancient Jewish and early Christian millennialism / James D. Tabor
  • European millennialism / Rebecca Moore
  • Chinese millennial movements / Scott Lowe
  • Korean millennial movements / Robert P. Flaherty
  • Japanese millennial movements / / Helen Hardacre
  • Millenarian elements in the Hindu religious traditions / Hugh B. Urban
  • Millennial and apocalyptic movements in Africa / Rosalind I.J. Hackett
  • Millennialism in the Caribbean / Barry Chevannes
  • Pacific millennial movements / Garry W. Trompf
  • Native American geopolitical, georestorative movements / Michelene E. Pesantubbee
  • Babi and Bahaʼi millennialism / Peter Smith, William P. Collins
  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century millennialisms / John R. Stone
  • Christian dispensationalism / Glenn W. Shuck
  • National Socialist millennialism / David Redles
  • Modern Catholic millennialism / Massimo Introvigne
  • New Age millennialism / Phillip Charles Lucas
  • UFOs, ETs, and the millennial imagination / Robert P/ Flaherty
  • Millennialism, apocalypse, and American popular culture / Douglas E. Cowan
  • Environmental millennialism / Robin Globuss, Bron Taylor
  • Millenialism on the radical right in America / Michael Barkun
  • Radical millennial movements in contemporary Judaism in Israel / Yaakov Ariel
  • Millennialism and radical Islamists movements / Jeffrey T. Kenney
  • Millennial glossary / Catherine Wessinger.
Other title(s)
  • Millennialism
  • Oxford handbooks online.
ISBN
  • 9780199909902
  • 0199909903
  • 9780199940523
  • 0199940525
LCCN
2010049028
OCLC
774892576
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