Apocalyptic time / edited by Albert I. Baumgarten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgarten, Albert I.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 86.

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; vol.86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eschatology--Congresses.

Eschatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Millennial movements are characterized by their nature and perception of time, and the ways in which these groups confront inevitable disappointment and then return to “normal” time. This is the theme for the book Apocalyptic Time . The volume consists of revised essays based on presentations made at an international conference devoted to that theme. Authors adopt a number of disciplinary approaches to the topic, analyzing millennial movements from the three Abrahamic faiths, as well as from the East. This book will be of particular interest to students of millennial movements, who wish to benefit from the comprehensive and comparative view it gives of the phenomenon, based on a wide variety of cases. This work greatly contributes to the theory of millennialism, by supplying specific data and theoretical reflection.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Albert I. Baumgarten

End of Time and New Time in Medieval Chinese Buddhism / Hubert Seiwert

Apocalypticism, Symbolic Breakdown and Paranoia: An Application of Lifton's Model to the Death-Rebirth Fantasy / Moshe Hazani

The Apocalyptic Year 200/815–16 and the Events Surrounding It / David Cook

I am not the Mahdi, But... / Peter Heine

The Development of Essenic Eschatology / A. Steudel

Innere Zeit und apokalyptische Zeit / Aharon R.E. Agus

Dating the Eschaton: Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Calculations in Late Antiquity / Oded Irshai

“The Time of the End:” Apocalypticism and its Spiritualization in Abraham Abulafia's Eschatology / Moshe Idel

Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Space in Kabbalistic Apocalypticism / Rachel Elior

Abnormal and Normal Time: After the Apocalypse / Gabriel Motzkin

Why Lubavitch Wants the Messiah Now: Religious Immigration as a Cause of Millenarianism / Adam Jacob Szubin

The Moral Apocalypse in Byzantium / Jane Baun

Cognitive Dissonance and Proselytism: An Application of Festinger's Model to Thirteenth-Century Joachites / Emmanuel Wardi

Awaiting the Last Days... Myth and Disenchantment / Johannes Fried

Apocalyptic Space / Moshe Barasch

The Restoration of Israel as Messianic Birth Pangs / Hans G. Kippenberg

When Prophecy Fails and When it Succeeds: Apocalyptic Prediction and the Re-Entry into Ordinary Time / Stephen D. O'Leary

Memory and the Metamorphosis of Apocalyptic Time in an Italian Millenarian Movement: The Case of David Lazzaretti and his Followers / Giovanni Filoramo

Index of Subjects and Names / Albert I. Baumgarten

Contributors / Albert I. Baumgarten

Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Albert I. Baumgarten.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46441-0

9786610464418

1-4175-9088-2

90-474-0056-9

OCLC:

191039250

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400561 DOI