Longing for the end
a history of millennialism in western civilization
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Author
Publication
1999 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32504M
- ISBN-100312210922
- OCLC Control Number40912582
- OCLC Control Numberlongingforendhis00baum
- Library of Congress Control Number99014214
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- Goodreads1503560
- LibraryThing30291
Classifications
- DDC236/.9
- LCCBT891 .B38 1999
Description
"Frederic J. Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western Civilization. From the ancient Zoroastrians to the Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the present world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence to become a permanent part of Western history. Not confined to cults, millennialism has also been part of the motivation behind the Crusades, Columbus's voyages, Marxism, and the Third Reich. In this work, Baumgartner shows why the turn of the millennium occupies such a powerful place in the Western imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
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