Imagining the end : visions of apocalypse from the ancient Middle East to modern America / edited by Abbas Amanat and Magnus Bernhardsson.
Contributor(s): Amanat, Abbas | Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2002Description: xi, 416 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1860647243Subject(s): Eschatology | MillennialismGenre/Form: Apocalyptic literature.Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 East | BT877 .I63 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902211362 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mesopotamia and the end of time / Benjamin R. Foster -- Millennialism and eschatology in the Zoroastrian tradition / Philip G. Kreyenbroek -- The biblical roots of apocalyptic / Robert R. Wilson -- Eschatological dynamics and utopian ideals in early Judaism / John J. Collins -- The Messiah and the millennium: the roots of two Jewish-Christian symbols / Harold W. Attridge -- Messianism, millennialism and revolution in early Islamic history / Said Amir Arjomand -- Medieval Europe: religious enthusiasm and social change in the 'millennial generation' / R. I. Moore -- Wrestling with the millennium: early modern Catholic exegesis of Apocalypse 20 / Bernard McGinn -- Deciphering the cosmos from creation to apocalypse: the Hurufiyya movement and medieval Islamic esotericism / Shahzad Bashir -- American millennial visions: towards construction of a new architectonic of American apocalypticism / Stephen J. Stein -- Millennium, prophecy and the energies of social transformation: the case of Nat Turner / Richard H. Brodhead -- Comparative millennialism in Africa: continuities and variations on the canon / Lamin Sanneh -- Is there a Chinese millenarian tradition? An analysis of recent Western studies of the Taiping rebellion / David Ownby -- Millennialism in modern Iranian history / Juan R. I. Cole -- The Middle East in modern American popular prophetic belief / Paul Boyer.