Apocalyptic time

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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.

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Full title :Apocalyptic time / edited by Albert I. Baumgarten.

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Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

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Description:1 online resource (xv, 388 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:1417590882, 9781417590889, 9004118799, 9789004118799, 9047400569, 9789047400561
oclc:ocm60257473
LC Classification:BL500
Dewey Decimal:202.3

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 …

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Actes de congrès Apocalyptiek Apokalyptik Chiliasme Conference papers and proceedings Cosmogonie -- Congrès Einde der tijden Endzeiterwartung Eschatologie Eschatologie -- Congrès Eschatologie -- Histoire des doctrines Eschatology Eschatology -- Congresses Fin du monde RELIGION -- Eschatology