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Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence to become a permanent part of Western history.
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"In this timely book, Baumgartner makes a complicated topic not only intelligible but also interesting to a broad reading audience. Through two millennia of millennialism, apocalypticism, chiliasm, and messianism he traces a line of succession in which he finds a place even for contemporary cults." --Monsignor Robert Trisco, Professor of Church History at the Catholic University of America and editor of Catholic Historical Review
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"Longing for the End is a lucid and readable survey of the many varieties and permutations of millennialism in Western thought. At every stage, Baumgartner roots his discussion in the social realities of the time. This admirably accessible overview provides a useful historical context for ideas that remain pervasive and potent today." --Paul Boyer, Author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
FREDERIC J. BAUMGARTNER is Professor of History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of From Spear to Flintlock: A History of War in Europe to the French Revolution, Louis XII, and France in the Sixteenth Century.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- ISBN 10 0756766192
- ISBN 13 9780756766191
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages286
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