Overview
This volume encompasses an array of material exploring the millennium phenomenon and the violent excitement it provokes. Consisting of three core parts, the book combines pertinent documents with insightful commentary and discussion.Synopsis
This volume encompasses an array of material exploring the millennium phenomenon and the violent excitement it provokes. Consisting of three core parts, the book combines pertinent documents with insightful commentary and discussion.
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Scholars of religion and cults, politics, history, and other fields analyze the concerns that deranged millenarians would disrupt society when the calendar flipped over three zeros. They detail three reports in the US, Canada, and Israel, but also look at events and non-events in Japan and Finland, and at outbreaks of millennialism during the Middle Ages. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)