Apocalyptic Time: 86 (Numen Book) - Hardcover

 
9789004118799: Apocalyptic Time: 86 (Numen Book)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004118799 ISBN 13: 9789004118799
Publisher: Brill, 2000

Synopsis

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Albert I. Baumgarten Ph.D. (1972), Columbia University, is Professor of Jewish History; Director, Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology, Bar Ilan University. He has published The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation (Brill, 1997) and Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience (Brill, 1998).

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004118799
ISBN 13 
9789004118799
Binding
Leather Bound
Number of pages
392
Editor
Baumgartner Albert I