The millennial New World / Frank Graziano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graziano, Frank, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millennialism--Latin America--History.

Millennialism.

Latin America--Religion.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a study of millennialism - the idea that something climactic will happen in the year 2000 - in Latin America, from the pre-Columbian period up to the present.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Definitions; The Attributes of Millennialism; 1 Crisis and Salvation; The Imminent End; Messianic Imperialism; The Last World Emperor; Recurring Ends; Joachim of Fiore and the Americas; Signs; The Perpetual Threshold; Collective Death; 2 The Chosen People; Symbolic Inversion; Reduction and Polarization; The New Humanity; Divine Alliance; The New Morality; A Practical Faith; 3 Nativist Rebellions; The Extirpation of Christianity; Strategic Borrowing; The War of Mixtón; Taqui Onqoy; The Pueblo Revolt; The Tzeltal Rebellion; The Caste War; Andean Rebellions

4 The Promise of ParadiseThe Dissipating Image; A Roaming Locus; Utopia and Subversion; Return to the Future; Fragmentation and Unity; The Land-without-Evil; Eden and El Dorado; The Columbian Discovery of Paradise; Millennial Missions; 5 Return of the Cultural Hero; Quetzalcóatl and Saint Thomas; The Myth of Inkarrí; Son of the Sun; 6 The Messiah; Supernatural Advantage; Dialogical Power; The Broken Promise; Lope de Aguirre; Simón Bolívar; Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre; Juan and Evita Perón; The Messiahs of Brazil; Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H

IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-356) and index.

ISBN:

9786611196608

1-281-19660-6

0-19-802883-0

1-4356-1866-1

OCLC:

191826882