Imagining the end : visions of apocalypse from the ancient Middle East to modern America /
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Apocalyptic Anxieties and Millennial Hopes in the Salvation Religions of the Middle East / Abbas Amanat
- Part I. Origins
- 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
- Part II. Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- 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
- Part III. Medieval and Early Modern Periods
- Medieval Europe : Religious Enthusiasm and Social Change in the "Millennial Generation" / R.I. Moore
- Wrestling with the Millennium : Early Modern Catholic Exegesis of Apocalypse / Bernard McGinn
- Deciphering the Cosmos from Creation to Apocalypse : The Hurufiyya Movement and Medieval Islamic Esotericism / Shahzad Bashir
- Part IV. Modern Times
- 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.