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Apocalyptic time /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baumgarten, Albert I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Colección:Studies in the history of religions ; 86.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.