Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah (Religion and Politics) - Hardcover

Kaplan, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815626878 ISBN 13: 9780815626879

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Examines the radical doctrine of three religiously based apocalyptic movements Christian Identity, Odinists, and B'nai Noah and analyzes their rejection of mainstream American culture. Compares the groups' similarities and differences, and looks at the relationship between the cults and those who make a profession of watching and countering them. For scholars of contemporary religion and culture. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Jeffrey Kaplan takes a provocative look at three religiously based apocalyptic movements, their radical doctrines, and their rejection of mainstream American culture.

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In a sterling example of comparative religion, Kaplan describes forces gathering in America on the eve of what may be the wildest party in a thousand years--the turn of the millennium and, with it, apocalypse. He focuses on three groups: the fairly well known Christian Identity; the slightly more outreOdinists, who hark back to some imagined Viking forebears; and the B'nai Noah, a pro-Semitic group with obvious disparities between their beliefs and those of the other two. Kaplan shows the three groups' functional similarities and likenesses in worldview and action, despite differences in nuance, and he includes a fascinating chapter on the relationship between the cults and those who make a profession of watching and countering them. Adherents of these groups have in common an anticipation of the end of the world: some are for it, some are against it, but all expect it. Kaplan's academic approach provides welcome detachment from the often unsavory characters he details, yet he never lets us forget that these are real people. Dennis Winters

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0815626878
• ISBN 13: 9780815626879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 245