عنوان

Imagining the end :

1860647243

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2-12185

انگلیسی

Imagining the end :

visions of apocalypse from the ancient Middle East to modern America /

edited by Abbas Amanat and Magnus Bernhardsson.

New York:

I. B. Tauris,

2002.

xi, 416 p. ;

24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Apocalyptic Anxieties and Millennial Hopes in the Salvation Religions of the Middle East/ Abbas Amanat -- Mesopotamia and the end of time/ Benjamin R. Foster -- Millennialism and Eschatology in the Zoroastrian tradition/ Philip G. Kreyenbroek -- The Biblical roots of Apocalypitc / 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 Apocalypsticism/ Stephen J. Stein -- Millennium, prohecy 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 tradtion? 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

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Apocalyptic literature.

Eschatology.

Amanat, Abbas.

Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell.

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