The year 2000 : essays on the end /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c1997. |
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| Description: | ix, 343 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2767183 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Charles B. Strozier
- 2. The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Millennial Fever and the Origins of the Modern West / Richard A. Landes
- 3. Medieval Millenarianism: Its Bearing on the Comparative Study of Millenarian Movements / Norman Cohn
- 4. The Breast, the Apocalypse, and the Colonial Journey / Catherine Keller
- 5. God, Lincoln, and the Civil War / Charles B. Strozier
- 6. Apocalyptic Spirituality: Approaching the Third Millennium / Bernard McGinn
- 7. The Other Is Ourselves: A Feminist Spirituality for the Year 2000 and Beyond / Marie L. Baird
- 8. Apocalyptic Violence and the Politics of Waco / Charles B. Strozier
- 9. Reflections on Aum Shinrikyo / Robert Jay Lifton
- 10. Shifting Millennial Visions in New Religious Movements: The Case of the Holy Order of MANS / Phillip Charles Lucas
- 11. On the Image of 2000 in Contemporary Cults / Margaret Thaler Singer
- 12. Phallic Millennialism and Radical Environmentalism: The Apocalyptic Vision of Earth First! / Lois Ann Lorentzen
- 13. Coercive Purity: The Dangerous Promise of Apocalyptic Masculinity / Lee Quinby
- 14. The Paucity of the Millennial Moment: The Case of Nuclearism / Richard Falk
- 15. Is the Apocalypse Coming? Paramilitary Culture after the Cold War / J. William Gibson
- 16. Racist Apocalypse: Millennialism on the Far Right / Michael Barkun
- 17. Political Millennialism within the Evangelical Subculture / Sara Diamond
- 18. The Millennial Concept and the Evolution of Leadership in Black Pentecostalism and the Nation of Islam / Clarence Taylor
- 19. The Flight from Finitude / Jean Bethke Elshtain
- 20. Searching for Alternatives: Autobiography and Masculinity at the Bimillennium / Michael Flynn
- 21. Hysteresis of the Millennium / Jean Baudrillard
- 22. The Impending Computer Crisis of the Year 2000 / Sandra Schanzer
- 23. Millennium, Texas / Michael Erard
- 24. After Armageddon: Apocalyptic Art since the Seventies: Tactics of Survival in a Postnuclear Planet / Peter von Ziegesar
- 25. Theater at 2000: A Witnessing Project / Karen Malpede
- 26. Economics of the Millennium / Hillel Schwartz.