• General Studies
• Apocalyptic Groups & Trends
• Contemporary Jewish Messianism & Zionism
• Contemporary Islamic Apocalypticism
• Jerusalem & Israel in Jewish, Christian & Islamic Eschatologies
• Technology & Apocalypse
• Armageddon: Disaster & Apocalyptic

 

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General Studies

Aho, James Alfred.  "The Apocalypse of Modernity."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 61-72.

 

Barkun, Michael.  "Politics and Apocalypticism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 442-60.

 

Baumgartner, Frederic J.  Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

 

Beegle, Dewey M.  Prophecy and Prediction.  Ann Arbor: Pryor Pettengill, 1978.

 

Bowie, Fiona and Christopher Deacy, eds.  The Coming Deliverer: Millennial Themes in World Religions.  Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997.

 

Boyer, Paul S.  When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap, 1992.

 

Brasher, Brenda E.  "From Revelation to The X-Files: An Autopsy of Millennialism in American Popular Culture."  Semeia 82 (1998) 281-95.

 

Bulman, Raymond F.  The Lure of the Millennium: The Year 2000 and Beyond.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1999.

 

Cantor, David.  The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism in America.  New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1994.

 

Clay, J. Eugene.  "Apocalypticism in Eastern Europe."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 293-321.

 

Harding, Susan.  "Imagining the Last Days: The Politics of Apocalyptic Language."  In Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements (The Fundamentalism Project, vol. 4; ed. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby; Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994) 57-78.

 

Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.

 

Kampen, John.  "The Genre and Function of Apocalyptic Literature in the African American Experience."  In Text and Experience: Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible (ed. Daniel L. Smith-Christopher; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) 43-65.

 

Nunez, Samuel.  The Vision of Daniel 8: Interpretations from 1700-1800, Andrews Seminary Doctoral Dissertation Series 14. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Press, 1989.

 

Schoepflin, Rennie.  "Science and Apocalypticism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 427-41.

 

Schreiner, Klaus.  "Messianism in the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).

 

Wojcik, Daniel.  The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America.  New York: New York University Press, 1999.

 

Wright, N. T.  The Millennium Myth: Hope for a Postmodern World.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999.

 

Zimdars-Swartz, Sandra L. and Paul F. Zimdars-Swartz.  "Apocalypticism in Modern Western Europe."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 265-92.

 

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Apocalyptic Groups & Trends

Anthology of Primary Texts

Daniels, Ted, ed.  A Doomsday Reader: Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation.  New York: New York University Press, 1999.

 

Background Reading

Barkun, Michael.  "End-Time Paranoia: Conspiracy Thinking at the Millennium's Close."  In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 170-84.

 

Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin.  The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Active New Religions, Sects, and Cults.  New York: Rosen, 1993.

 

Braden, Charles Samuel.  These Also Believe: A Study of Modern American Cults and Minority Religious Movements. New York: Macmillan, 1967; original 1949.

 

Hall, John R.  "Public Narratives and the Apocalyptic Sect: From Jonestown to Mt. Carmel."  In Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict (ed. Stuart A. Wright; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 205-235.

 

Kaplan, Jeffrey.  Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah.  Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

 

Levine, Robert M.  "Apocalyptic Movements in Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 179-203.

 

Lewis, James R.  The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions.  Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 1998.

 

Melton, J. Gordon.  The Encyclopedia of American Religions, 6th ed.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1987-.

 

Robbins, Thomas and Susan J. Palmer.  "Introduction: Patterns of Contemporary Apocalypticism."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 1-27.

 

Stein, Stephen J.  "Apocalypticism Outside the Mainstream in the United States."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 108-139.

 

Tabor, James D.  "Patterns of the End: Textual Weaving from Qumran to Waco."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).

 

Wallis, Roy.  "Charisma, Commitment and Control in a New Religious Movement."  In Millennialism and Charisma (ed. Roy Wallis; Belfast: The Queen's University, 1982) 73-140.

 

Wessinger, Catherine Lowman.  How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate.  New York: Chatham House, 2000.

 

--------.  Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: Historical Cases, Religion and Politics. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

 

--------.  "Millennialism with and without the Mayhem."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 47-59.

 

Aum Shinrikyo

Mullins, Mark R.  "Aum Shinrikyo as an Apocalyptic Movement."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 313-24.

 

 

 

Branch Davidians

Anthony, Dick and Thomas Robbins.  "Religious Totalism, Exemplary Dualism, and the Waco Tragedy."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 261-84.

 

Boyer, Paul S.  "A Brief History of the End of Time: The American Roots of the Branch Davidians."  New Republic 208 (May 17, 1993) 30-33.

 

Faubion, James D.  The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.

 

Gallagher, Eugene V.  "'Theology Is Life and Death': David Koresh on Violence, Persecution, and the Millennium."  In Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: Historical Cases (ed. Catherine Wessinger; Religion and Politics; Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000) 82-100.

 

Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  "Rapture, Great Disappointment and Waco."  In Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill & Wang, 1998) 142-69.

 

Nessan, Craig L.  "When Faith Turns Fatal: David Koresh and Tragic Misreadings of Revelation."  Currents in Theology and Mission 22 (1995) 191-9.

Reavis, Dick J.   The Ashes of Waco: An Investigaion.  Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

 

Saul, David.  "Children of the American Myth: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the American Bible."  In The Bible and the American Myth: A Symposium on the Bible and Constructions of Meaning (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush; Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 16; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) 123-55.

Scruggs, Richard, et al. Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas, February 28 to April 19, 1993.  Washington, D. C.: Department of Justice, 1993.

 

Strozier, Charles B.  "Apocalyptic Violence and the Politics of Waco."  In The Year 2000: Essays on the End (ed. Charles B. Strozier and Michael Flynn; New York: New York Univeristy Press, 1997).

 

Swett, Mark.  Waco Never Again!  Online, http://home.maine.rr.com/waco/, 12 November 2002.  [Host site for some primary literature from oral Bible study materials published by Koresh]

 

Tabor, James D. and Eugene V. Gallagher.  Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

 

Wright, Stuart A., ed. Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

 

Christian Identity & Patriot Movements

Aho, James Alfred.  The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.

 

Barkun, Michael "Militias, Christian Identity and the Radical Right."  Christian Century 112 (1995) 738-40.

 

--------.  "Millenarians and Violence: The Case of the Christian Identity Movement."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 247-60.

 

--------.  "Racist Apocalypse: Millennialism on the Far Right."  American Studies 31 (1990) 122.

 

--------.  Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

 

Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  "From British Israel to Christian Identity and Aryan Nation."  In Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill & Wang, 1998) 170-204.

 

Lamy, Philip.  Millennium Rage: Survivalists, White Supremacists, and the Doomsday Prophecy.  New York: Plenum, 1996.

 

--------.  "Secularizing the Millennium: Survivalists, Militias, and the New World Order."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 93-117.

 

Evangelical Christians

Boyer, Paul S.  "The Growth of Fundamentalistic Apocalyptic in the United States."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 140-78.

 

Clouse, Robert G., Robert N. Hosack, and Richard V. Pierard.  The New Millennium Manual: A Once and Future Guide.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1999.

 

Erickson, Millard J.  Contemporary Options in Eschatology: A Study of the Millennium.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977.

 

Feinberg, Charles L.  Millennialism: The Two Major Views. The Premillennial and Amillennial Systems of Biblical Interpretation Analyzed and Compared, 3d ed. Chicago: Moody, 1980; original 1936.

 

Jeffrey, Grant R.  Armageddon: Earth's Last Days.  Tyndale, 1998.

 

--------.  War on Terror: Unfolding Bible Prophecy.  Frontier Research Publications, 2002.

 

Hagee, John.  Attack on America: New York, Jerusalem, and the Role of Terrorism in the Last Days.  Thomas Nelson, 2001.

 

Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  "The End of the World and the Nuclear Messiah."  In Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998) 205-48.

 

Lindsey, Hal.  Apocalypse Code.  Western Front, 1997.

 

--------.  Facing Millennial Midnight.  1999.

 

--------.  The Final Battle.  Western Front, 1995.

 

--------.  Israel and the Last Days.  Harvest House, 1991.

 

--------.  Planet Earth: The Final Chapter.  Western Front Publications, 1998.

 

--------.  Planet Earth Two Thousand A.D.: Will Mankind Survive? Western Front, 1996.

 

--------.  There's a New World Coming: An Indepth Analysis of the Book of Revelation.  Harvest House Publications, 1984.

 

Newport, John P.  The Lion and the Lamb.  Nashville: Broadman, 1986.

 

Ryrie, Charles C.  What You Should Know About the Rapture.   Chicago: Moody, 1981.

 

Shupe, Anson.  "Christian Reconstructionism and the Angry Rhetoric of Neo-Postmillennialism."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 195-206.

 

Heaven's Gate

Balch, Robert W.  "Bo and Peep: A Case Study of the Origins of Messianic Leadership."  In Millennialism and Charisma (ed. Roy Wallis; Belfast: The Queen's University, 1982) 13-72.

 

--------.  "The Evolution of a New Age Cult: From Total Overcomers Anonymous to Death at Heaven's Gate."  In Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis (ed. W. W. Zellner and Marc Petrowsky; Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998) 1-25.

 

--------.  "The Waiting for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and Peep's UFO Cult."  In The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds (ed. James R. Lewis; Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995) 137-66.

 

Davis, Winston.  "Heaven's Gate: A Study of Religious Obedience."  Nova Religio 3 (2000) 241-67.

 

Hendel, Ronald S.  "Knocking on Heaven's Gate: Death, Insanity and Heresy Await the Unwary who Dabble in Heavenly Mysteries."  Bible Review 13 (August 1997) 20.

 

Howard, Robert Glenn.  "Attitudes Toward the Tragic: A Not-so-horribly Biased Approach to the Heaven's Gate E-mail Campaign."  Journal of Millennial Studies 1 (1998).  Online, http://www.mille.org/publications/summer98/rghoward.pdf, 23 May 2003.

 

Marty, Martin E.  "Playing with Fire: Looking at Heaven's Gate."  Christian Century 114 (16 April 1997) 379-80.

 

McKutcheon, Russell T.  "Editorial: Religious Studies, Mass Media and Heaven's Gate Suicides."  Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 26 (April 1997) 26-8.

 

Nangle, Joe.  "The Difference between a Community and a Cult."  Sojourners 26 (July-August 1997) 41.

 

Nelson, Dean.  "To Heaven on a UFO? Heaven's Gate Forces Us to Ask if it's 'Stupid' to Die for Our Beliefs."  Christianity Today 41 (19 May 1997) 14-15.

 

Robinson, Wendy Gale.  "Heaven's Gate: The End?"  In Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (3 December 1997).  Online, http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue3/robinson.html, 9 June 2003.

 

Rodman, Rosamond.  "Heaven's Gate: Religious Otherworldliness American Style."  In The Bible and the American Myth: A Symposium on the Bible and Constructions of Meaning (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) 157-73.

 

TELAH Services.  "Heaven's Gate - How and When It May Be Entered."  Psi Council, Inc.  Online, http://www.psicounsel.com/hg/hg.htm, 23 May 2003.

 

Urban, Hugh B.  "The Devil at Heaven's Gate: Rethinking the Study of Religion in the Age of Cyber-Space."  Nova Religio 3 (2000) 268-302.

 

Watcher.  "Apocalyptic Signs in the Heavens 1999 / Millennium Apocalypse Antichrist comet Hyukatake comet Hale Bopp Signs of anti christ."  MillenniuM & Apocalypse: Watcher Website Conspiracy and Prophecy Index.  Online, http://www.mt.net/~watcher/signs.html, 23 May 2003.

 

Wessinger, Catherine.  How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate.  New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.

 

Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)

Braden, Charles Samuel.  "Mormonism."  In These Also Believe: A Study of Modern American Cults and Minority Religious Movements (New York: Macmillan, 1967; original 1949).

 

Introvigne, Massimo.  "Latter Day Revisited: Contemporary Mormon Millenarianism."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 229-44.

 

Mainstream Protestant

Moorehead, James H.  "Apocalypticism in Mainstream Protestantism, 1800 to the Present."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 72-107.

 

Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (Uganda)

Introvigne, Massimo.  "Tragedy in Uganda: The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Post-Catholic Movement."  CESNUR, Center for Studies on New Religions, 5 April 2000. Online, Available: http://www.cesnur.org/testi/uganda_002.htm.  6 April 2000.

 

"Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God: Doomsday Cult, Uganda."  GospelCom: Apologetics Index, [n.d.].  Online, Available: http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/m08.html.   6 April 2000.

 

Murphy, Dean E.  "Uganda Cults: Powerful Draws That Go Largely Untracked."  International Herald Tribune, 1 April 2000.  Online, Available: http://www.iht.com:80/IHT/TODAY/SAT/IN/cult.2.html.  6 April 2000.

 

"Quiet Cult's Doomsday Deaths."  BBC News: World: Africa.  29 March 2000.  Online, Available: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_683000/683813.stm.   5 April 2000.

 

Robinson, B. A.  "'Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God': A Christian Doomsday Cult in Uganda."  Religious Tolerance.org, 5 April 2000.  Online, Available: http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_rest.htm.   6 April 2000.

 

"Tragedy in Uganda: The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Post-Catholic Movement: Index Page."  CESNUR, Center for Studies on New Religions, 6 April 2000.  Online, Available: http://www.cesnur.org/testi/uganda_updates.htm.  5 April 2000.

 

People's Temple

Hall, John R.  "The Apocalypse at Jonestown."  In In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, 2d rev. ed. (ed. Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony; New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction, 1990) 269-93.

 

--------.  "Public Narratives and the Apocalyptic Sect: From Jonestown to Mt. Carmel."  In Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict (ed. Stuart A. Wright; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 205-235.

 

Levy, Ken, ed. Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement.  University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982.

 

Moore, Rebecca and Fielding M. McGehee, eds. New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy.  Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1989.

 

Roman Catholic

Cuneo, Michael W.  "The Vengeful Virgin: Case Studies in Contemporary American Catholic Apocalypticism."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 175-94.

 

Seventh-Day Adventists

Lawson, Ronald.  "The Persistence of Apocalypticism Within a Denominationalizing Sect: The Apocalyptic Fringe Groups of Seventh-Day Adventism."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 207-28.

 

--------.  "Seventh-day Adventist Responses to Branch Davidian Notority: Patterns of Diversity within a Sect Reducing Tension with Society."  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34 (1995) 323-41.

 

Solar Temple

Hall, John R. and Philip Schuyler.  "The Mystical Apocalypse of the Solar Temple."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 285-311.

 

Unification Church

Taylor, David.  "Becoming New People: The Recruitment of Young Americans into the Unification Church."  In Millennialism and Charisma (ed. Roy Wallis; Belfast: The Queen's University, 1982) 177-230.

 

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Contemporary Jewish Messianism & Zionism

Agus, Jacob B.  "The Messianic Ideal and the Apocalyptic Vision."  Judaism 32 (1983) 205-214.

 

Amir, Yehoshua.  "Messianism and Zionism."  In Eschatology in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian Tradition (ed. Henning Graf Reventlow; JSOTSup 243; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 13-30.

 

Amon, Moshe.  "Jewish Law in Israel Today: A Conundrum for Messianic Times."  SR 13 (1984) 57-63.

 

Aronoff, Myron J.  "Gush Emunim: The Institutionalization of a Charismatic, Messianic, Religious-Political Revitalization Movement in Israel."  In Religion and Politics (ed. Myron J. Aronoff; New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction, 1984) 63-84.

 

Berenbaum, Michael.  "In a World Without a Redeemer, Redeem! Messianism in Contemporary Israel."  In Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah (ed. Steven L. Jacobs; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1993) 23-32, 187-8.

 

Biale, David J.  "Mysticism and Politics in Modern Israel: The Messianic Ideology of Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook."  In Religion and Politics in the Modern World (ed. Peter H. Merkl and Ninian Smart; New York: New York University Press, 1983) 191-202.

 

Dan, Joseph."The Two Meanings of Hasidic Messianism."  In Hesed ve-Emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (ed. Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin; BJS 320; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998) 391-407.

 

Elior, Rachel.  "The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).

 

Feher, Shoshanah.  Passing Over Easter: Constructing the Boundaries of Messianic Judaism.  Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira, 1998.

 

Fieldsend, John.  Messianic Jews: Challenging Church and Synagogue.  Eastbourne, England: MARC, 1993.

 

Fry, Helen.  "Messianic Judaism: A Theological Response."  Epworth Review 23 (1996) 102-110.

 

Gibbs, Robert.  "Lines, Circles, Points: Messianic Epistemology in Cohen, Rosenzweig and Benjamin."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).

 

Gruenwald, Ithamar.  "Apocalypticism, Mysticism, Messianism and Political Assassination."  Criterion 35 (Winter 1996) 11-17.

 

Hertzberg, Arthur, ed.  The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader.  New York: Atheneum, 1959.

 

Idel, Moshe.  Messianic Mystics.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998.

 

Kellner, Menachem.  "Messianic Postures in Israel Today."  Modern Judaism 6 (1986) 197-209.

 

Lenowitz, Harris.  "Shukr Kuhayl II Reads the Bible."  In Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World (ed. Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan F. LeBeau; Studies in Jewish Civilization 10; Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2000).

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Morgenstern, Arie.  "Messianic Concepts and Settlement in the Land of Israel," trans. Y. Lerner. In Vision and Conflict in the Holy Land (ed. Richard I. Cohen; New York: St. Martin's, 1985) 141-62.

 

Rausch, David A.  "The Emergence of Messianic Judaism in Recent American History."  Christian Scholar's Review 12 (1983) 37-52.

 

--------.  Messianic Judaism: Its History, Theology and Polity.  New York: Edwin Mellen, 1982.

 

Ravitzky, Aviezer.  "The Messianism of Success in Contemporary Judaism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 204-229.

 

--------.  Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, trans. Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman, Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; Hebrew original, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1993.

 

Rottenberg, Isaac C.  "Messianic Jews: A Troubling Presence."  First Things 28 (1992) 26-32.

 

Scholem, Gershom.  The Messianic Idea in Judaism.  New York: Schocken, 1971.

 

Sharot, Stephen.  Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

 

Sidey, Kenneth H.  "Messianic Jews Seek Visibility, Respect."  Christianity Today 34 (1990) 72.

 

Sprinzak, Ehud.  The Ascendance of Israel’s Radical Right.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

 

Stone, John R.  "Messianic Judaism: A Redefinition of the Boundary Between Christian and Jew."  In Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI, 1991) 237-52.

 

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Contemporary Islamic Apocalypticism

Amanat, Abbas.  "The Resurgence of Apocalyptic in Modern Islam."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 230-64.

 

Ayoub, Mahmoud.  Redemptive Suffering in Islam.  The Hague: Mouton, 1978.

Reviews end of the world motifs relative to the Mahdi in popular Shia literature.

 

Bashir, Sulayman.  "Muslim Apocalypses and the Hour: A Case Study in Traditional Interpretation."  In Israel Oriental Studies, vol. 13 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993) 75-99.

 

Cook, David B.  "America, the Second 'AD: Prophecies about the Downfall of the United States."  Center for Millennial Studies: Scholarship, Boston University (Winter 2001).  Online, http://www.mille.org/scholarship/papers/ADAM.html, 9 October 2002.

 

--------.  "The Beginnings of Islam as an Apocalyptic Movement."  Center for Millennial Studies: Publications, Boston University (Winter 2001).  Online, http://www.mille.org/publications/winter2001/cook.html, 9 October 2002.

 

--------.  Classical Islamic Apocalyptic.  Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 2002?.

 

--------.  "Hadith, Authority and the End of the World: Traditions in Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Literature."  Oriente Moderno 21 (n.s.) (2001) 1-22.

 

--------.  "Islam and Apocalypse."  Center for Millennial Studies: Articles and Abstracts, Boston University (2001).  Online, http://www.mille.org/scholarship/papers/cookabs.html, 9 October 2002.

 

--------.  "Jerusalem, the Year 2000 and Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Expectations."  Paper presented at The Jerusalem Center for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, 21 June 1999.  (Made available at the Course ERes:Research Materials folder with the permission of the author)

 

--------.  "Muslim Apocalyptic and Jihad."  Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 20 (1996) 66-104.

 

--------.  "Muslim Apocalyptic Writers and Christian Evangelicals: The Internet Connection."  Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Center for Millennial Studies Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA, 5 November 2001.  (Made available at the Course ERes:Research Materials folder with the permission of the author)

 

--------.  "Muslim Fears of the Year 2000."  Middle East Quarterly 5 (1998) 51-62.

 

--------.  "Muslim Messianic Movements and Astronomical Phenomena."  Revue du Monde Musulmane et de la Méditerranée 91-94 (2001) 29-51.

 

--------.   Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic, SLAEI 21. Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin, 2003.

 

Cragg, Kenneth.  "Finality in Islam."  Studia Missionalia 32 (1983) 219-30.

 

Dharmaraj, Jacob S. and Glory E. Dharmaraj.  "Sin and Salvation: Christianity and Islam."  Bangalore Theological Forum 30 (1998) 45-67.

 

Dhavamony, Mariasusai, Jesus Lopez Gay, Joseph de Finance, eds.   "Eschatology in Christianity and other World Religions" [thematic issue].  Studia Missionalia 32 (1983) 1-403.

 

Donner, Fred M.  "The Sources of Islamic Conceptions of War."  In Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (ed. John Kelsay and James Turner Johnson; New York: Greenwood, 1991) 31-69.

 

Friedmann, Yohanan.  "The Messianic Claim of Ghulam Ahmad." In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).

 

"Ghulat" ("doctrinal extremists") or "Ghuluww" ("doctrinal extremism"). The Encyclopaedia of Islam.

 

Hassan, Riffat.  "Messianism and Islam."  Journal of Ecumenical Studies 22 (1985) 261-91.

 

Hodgson, Marshall G. S.  "A Note on the Millennium in Islam."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 218-19.

 

Holt, P. M.  "Islamic Millenarianism and the Fulfillment of Prophecy: A Case Study."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Burnt Hill, Harlow, England: Longman, 1980) 335-47.

 

Juergensmeyer, Mark.  "Islam's 'Neglected Duty.'"  In Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society 13; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000-2001) 60-83.

 

Landes, Richard E.  "Apocalyptic Islam and Bin Laden."  Center for Millennial Studies: People, Boston University (Winter 2001).  Online, http://www.mille.org/people/rlpages/Bin_Laden.html, 9 October 2002.

 

"Mahdi" ("the rightly guided"). The Encyclopaedia of Islam.

 

Marcus, Amy Dockser.  "Why Every Family Needs a Martyr, Not Just for 70 Virgins: Prestige Leads Some Muslims To Overstate the Heroics."  Wall Street Journal 76 (15 May 1995) A1, A6.

 

Mazrui, Ali A.  "Islam and the End of History."  American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 10 (1993) 512-35.

 

Morony, Michael G.  Iraq After the Muslim Conquest.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984.

See pp.497 et passim; offers wonderful material about early apocalyptic/messianism in Islam and its influence by forms of Gnosticism, etc.

Murad, Abdal Hakim.  "Islam and the New Millennium."  

 

Nasr, Seyyed Hosain  Shiism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality.  Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1988.

See pp.88 et seq; Nasr excerpts Marshall Hodgson's Venture of Islam.  Hodgson's discussions of Ismaili Shiism bring out the apocalyptic dimension of Ismaili thought.

Oliver, Anne-Marie and Paul Steinberg.  "The Politics of Apocalypse in the Underground Media of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)."  Center for Millennial Studies: People, Boston University (1997).  Online, http://www.mille.org/people/steinbergoliver.html, 9 October 2002.

 

Pinault, David.  Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community.  New York: St. Martins, 1992.

 

--------.  Horse of Karbala: Muslim Devotional Life in India.  New York: Palgrave/St Martins 2001.

 

Shariati, Ali.  Red Shiism.  Houston: Free Islamic Literatures, 1980.

 

--------.  "Thar" (Revenge/blood-feud). In Jihad and Shahadat (ed. M. Abedi and G. Legenhausen; Houston: Institute for Research and Islamic Studies, 1986).

One of the modern Iranian thinkers who applies the Mahdi concept to modern politics. See for example his pamphlet and his essay.

Suermann, Harald.  "Muhammad in Christian and Jewish Apocalyptic Expectations."  Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 5 (1994) 5-21.

 

Wessinger, Catherine.  "Bin Laden and Revolutionary Millennialism."  Center for Millennial Studies: CMS Home, Boston University (Winter 2001).  Online, http://www.mille.org/cmshome/wessladen.html, 9 October 2002; reprinted Op-Ed piece from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 10 October 2001.

 

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim.  "Early 'Abbasid Response to Apocalyptic Propaganda: A Note."  Islamic Quarterly 32 (1988) 236-44.

 

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Jerusalem & Israel in Jewish, Christian, and Moslem Eschatologies

Core Texts

Balmer, Randall.  Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

 

Boyer, Paul.  When Time Shall Be No More.  Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, 1992.

 

Brasher, Brenda E.  "When Your Friend is Your Enemy: American Christian Fundamentalists and Israel at the New Millennium."  In Millennial Visions: Essays on Twentieth-Century Millenarianism (ed. Martha F. Lee; Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2000).

 

Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Project Megiddo, 1999.  Online, Available http://www.fbi.gov/library.htm.   1 December 1999.

 

Goldberg, Jeffrey.  "Jerusalem Engames."  In The New York Times Magazine (3 October 1999) 38-43, 52, 65, 76-7.

 

Gorenberg, Gershom. The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for Temple Mount.  New York: The Free Press, 2000.

 

Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  "The End of the World and the Nuclear Messiah."  In Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998) 205-48.

 

Sack, Robert David.  Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

 

Scott, Jamie S. and Paul Simpson-Housley, ed.  Sacred Places and Profane Spaces: Essays in the Geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1991.

 

Shahar, Yael.  "Y2K and the Apocalypse: The Potential for Terrorism."  The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.  Online, Available http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=97, 11 December 2000.

 

Thompson, Damian.  The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium.  Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996.

 

Weber. Timothy P.  Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

 

Wessinger, Catherine.  "The Interacting Dynamics of Millennial Beliefs, Persecution, and Violence."  In Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases (ed. Catherine Wessinger; Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

 

Judaism

Hertzberg, Arthur, ed.  The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader.  New York: Atheneum, 1959.

 

Kellner, Menachem.  "Messianic Postures in Israel Today."  Modern Judaism 6 (1986) 197-209.

 

Morgenstern, Arie.  "Messianic Concepts and Settlement in the Land of Israel," trans. Y. Lerner. In Vision and Conflict in the Holy Land (ed. Richard I. Cohen; New York: St. Martin’s, 1985) 141-62.

 

Ravitzky, Aviezer.  "The Messianism of Success in Contemporary Judaism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998).

 

--------.  Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, trans. Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman, Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; Hebrew original, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1993.

 

Scholem, Gershom.  The Messianic Idea in Judaism.  New York: Schocken, 1971.

 

Stone, John R.  "Messianic Judaism: A Redefinition of the Boundary between Christian and Jew."  In Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI, 1991) 237-52.

• Lubavitcher Hasidim
  
  
• The Temple Institute
  
  
• Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement

 

Christianity

Evans, Mike.  Jerusalem Betrayed: Ancient Prophecy and Modern Conspiracy Collide in the Holy City.  Dallas: World, 1997.

 

Hagee, John.  Attack on America: New York, Jerusalem, and the Role of Terrorism in the Last Days.  Thomas Nelson, 2001.

 

--------.  Beginning of the End: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Coming Antichrist.  Nashville; Thomas Nelson, 1996.

 

Handy, Robert T.  "Zion in American Christian Movements."  In Israel: Its Role in Civilization (ed. Moshe Davis; New York: The Seminary Israel Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in America/Harper, 1956) 284-97.

 

Ice, Thomas and Randall Price.  Ready to Rebuild: The Imminent Plan to Rebuild the Last Days Temple.  Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House, 1992.

 

Malina, Bruce J.  "'Apocalyptic' and Territoriality."  In Early Christianity in Context: Monuments and Documents (ed. F. Manns and E. Alliata; SBFCM 38; Jerusalem: Franciscan, 1993) 369-80.

 

Price, Randall.  Jerusalem in Prophecy: God's Stage for the Final Drama.  Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House, 1998.

 

Robinson, B. A.  "The 'Concerned Christians' Cult - Originally of Denver CO."  ReligiousTolerance.org.  Online, Available http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_conc.htm.  18 December 2000.

 

Schmitt, John W. and J. Carl Laney.  Messiah's Coming Temple: Ezekiel's Prophecy of the Future Temple.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel, 1997.

 

Wilken, Robert L.  "Early Christian Chiliasm, Jewish Messianism, and the Idea of the Holy Land."  In Christians among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl (ed. George W. E. Nickelsburg; Philadelphia; Fortress, 1986) 298-307.

 

Yulish, Stephen M.  "Ashes of the Red Heifer."  The Triunity Report (Trinity Consulting).  Online, Available http://www.direct.ca/trinity/.  18 December 2000.

 

 

 

Islam

--------.  "Jerusalem, the Year 2000 and Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Expectations."  Paper presented at The Jerusalem Center for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, 21 June 1999.  (Made available at the Course ERes:Research Materials folder with the permission of the author)

 

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Technology & Apocalypse

Background

Bozeman, John M.  "Technological Millenarianism in the United States."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 139-58.

 

Bible Codes

Blumenthal, David R.  "The Creator and the Computer: Arranging Hebrew Letters in Sefer Yetsirah."  In History, Religion and Spiritual Democracy: Essays in Honor of Joseph L. Blau (ed. Maurice Wohlgelernter; New York: Columbia University Press, 1980) 114-29.

 

Drosnin, Michael.  The Bible Code.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

 

Harrison, James.  The Pattern and the Prophecy: God's Great Code.  Isaiah, 1996.

 

Jeffrey, Grant R.  The Signature of God: Astonishing Biblical Discoveries.  Spring Arbor Distributors, 1997.

 

Rambsel, Yacov and Grant R. Jeffrey.  Yeshua: The Name of Jesus Revealed in the Old Testament.  Spring Arbor Distributors, 1997.

 

Satinover, Jeffrey.  Cracking the Bible Code.  Dresden, Texas: William Morrow, 1998.

 

Wilson, Clifford A., John Weldon, Barbara Baddeley Wilson.  Decoding the Bible Code: Can We Trust the Message? Harvest House, 1998.

 

Y2K

 

 

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Armageddon: Eco-Disaster & Apocalptic

Aho, James.  "'I Am Death...Who Shatters Worlds': The Emerging Nuclear Death Cult."  In A Shuddering Dawn: Religious Studies and the Nuclear Age (New York: State University of New York Press, 1989) 49-68.

 

Barkun, Michael.  Disaster and the Millennium.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1974.

 

Batstone, David B.  "The Transformation of the Messianic Idea in Judaism and Christianity in Light of the Holocaust: Reflections on the Writings of Elie Wiesel."  Journal of Ecumenical Studies 23 (1986) 587-600.

 

Chernus, Ira.  "Nuclear Images in the Popular Press: The Age of Apocalypse."  In A Shuddering Dawn: Religious Studies and the Nuclear Age (New York: State University of New York Press, 1989) 3-19.

 

Danow, David K.  "Epiphany and Apocalypse in Holocaust Writing: Aharon Appelfeld."  Religion and Literature 29 (1997) 61-74.

 

Foard, James H.  "Imagining Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, Armageddon, and the Annihilation of the Students of Ichijo School."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 65 (1997) 1-18.

 

Friedlander, Albert H.  "Humanity and Apocalypse: Confronting the Holocaust."  In Religion and the Humanizing of Man (Waterloo, Ontario: Council on the Study of Religion, 1972) 87-90.

 

Greenberg, Gershon.  "Orthodox Theological Responses to Kristallnacht: Chayyim Ozer Grodzensky (Achiezer) and Elchonon Wassermann."  Holocaust and Genocide Studies 3 (1988) 431-41.

 

Jones, Larry.  "Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Nuclear Arms Race."  Transformation 5 (1/1988) 25-7.

 

Jones, Lawrence N.  "Apocalyptic Responses to War with Iraq."  In Christianity and Hegemony: Religion and Politics on the Frontiers of Social Change (ed. Jan Nederveen-Pieterse; Oxford: Berg, 1992) 303-311.

 

Lee, Martha F.  "Environmental Apocalypse: The Millennial Ideology of 'Earth First!'"  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 119-37.

 

Linafelt, Tod, ed.  Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust.  New York: New York University Press, 2000.

• Review

 

Popkin, Richard H.  "The Triumphant Apocalypse and the Catastrophic Apocalypse."  In Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity: The Fundamental Questions (ed. Avner Cohen and Steven Lee; Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Allanheld, 1986) 131-50.

 

Roskies, David G.  Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.

 

Rubenstein, Richard L.  "Apocalyptic Rationality and the Shoah."  In Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah (ed. Steven L. Jacobs; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1993) 157-72, 207-210.

 

• Apocalyptic & the History of Ideas
• Sociological
• Feminist
• Psychological
• Thematic
• Theological

 

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Apocalyptic & the History of Ideas

Altizer, Thomas J. J.  "Modern Thought and Apocalypticism."  In The Encylcopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 325-59.

 

Berger, James.  After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

 

Boyer, Paul.  "The Apocalyptic in the Twentieth Century."  In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 149-69.

 

Corcoran, Paul E.  Awaiting Apoalypse.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

 

Gager, John G.  "Messiahs and their Followers."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).

 

Keller, Catherine.  "Apocalypse and the Postmodern Condition: or 'Is it the End of the World or Just a Break in My Heart?'" In 1991 Paine Lectures in Religion: Religion and the Postmodern Vision (ed. Ron Farmer; Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri-Columbia).

 

--------.  "The Apocalypse of Community."  In On Community (ed. Leroy S. Rouner; Boston University Studies Philosophy & Religion 12; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991) 177-91.

 

--------.  "The Attraction of the Apocalypse and the Evil of the End."  Concilium (1998).

 

--------.  "A Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse."  In Population, Consumption, and the Environment: Religious and Secular Responses (ed. Harold Coward; Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).

 

--------.  "Eschatology, Ecology, and a Green Ecumenacy." Ecotheology 2 (1997) 84-99.

 

Löwith, Karl.  Meaning in History.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.

 

Marty, Martin E.  "The Future of No Future: Frameworks of Interpretation."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 461-84.

 

Schall, J. V.  "Apocalypse as a Secular Enterprise."  Scottish Journal of Theology 29 (1976) 357-73.

 

Thatcher, Tom.  "Empty Metaphors and Apocalyptic Rhetoric."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66 (1998) 549-70.

 

Trompf, G. W.  The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought: From Antiquity to the Reformation.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

 

Wessinger, Catherine, ed.  Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases, Religion and Politics. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

 

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Sociological

Aberle, David F.  "A Note on Relative Deprivation Theory as Applied to Millenarian and Other Cult Movements."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 209-214.

 

Balch, Robert W., John Domitrovich, Barbara Lynn Mahnke and Vanessa Morrison.  "Fifteen Years of Failed Prophecy: Coping with Cognitive Dissonance in a Baha'i Sect."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 73-90.

 

Blalock, H. M., Jr.  "Status Inconsistency, Social Mobility, Status Integration, and Structural Effects."  American Sociological Review 32 (1967) 790-801.

 

Bromley, David G.  "Constructing Apocalypticism: Social and Cultural Elements of Radical Organization."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 31-45.

 

Burridge, Kenelm.  New Heaven, New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities, The Pavilion Series, Social Anthropology. New York: Schocken, 1969.

 

Cook, Stephen L.  Prophecy and Apocalypticism: The Postexilic Social Setting.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

 

Davies, Philip R.  "The Social World of the Apocalyptic Writings."  In The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological, and Political Perspectives, Essays by Members of the Society for Old Testament Study (ed. R. E. Clements; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989) 251-71.

 

Fields, Karen E.  "Antinomian Conduct at the Millennium: Metaphorical Conceptions of Time in Social Science and Social Life."  In Political Dimensions of Religion (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993) 175-203.

 

Gager, John G.  Kingdom and Community: The Social World of Early Christianity.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1975.

 

Goffman, E.  Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

 

Ishwaran, K., ed. "Utopias in Axial Age Civilizations: Papers for Hebrew University Seminar, 1985-1987."  International Journal of Comparative Sociology 29 (1988) 1-49.

 

Kaminsky, Howard.  "The Problem of Explanation."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 215-17.

 

Lofland, John.  Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

 

O'Leary, Stephen D.  Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

 

--------.  "Popular Culture and Apocalypticism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 392-426.

 

Sharot, Stephen.  Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

 

Shepperson, George.  "The Comparative Study of Millenarian Movements."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 44-52.

 

Talmon, Yonina.  "Pursuit of the Millennium: The Relation between Religious and Social Change."  Archives européenes de sociologie 3 (1962) 125-48.

 

Trompf, Garry W.  Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements: Transocenaic Comparisons of New Religious Movements.  Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.

 

Wallace, Anthony.  "Revitalization Movements."  American Anthropologist 58 (1956) 264-81.

 

Wallis, Roy.  "Millennialism and Charisma."  In Millennialism and Charisma (ed. Roy Wallis; Belfast: The Queen's University, 1982) 1-11.

 

Wilson, Bryan R.  Magic and the Millennium: A Sociological Study of Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-world Peoples.  New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

 

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Feminist

Barr, David L.  "Towards an Ethical Reading of The Apocalypse: Reflections on John's Use of Power, Violence, and Misogyny."  Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 32 (1997) 358-73.

Keller, Catherine.  Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World.  Boston: Beacon, 1996.

 

--------.  "The Breast, the Apocalypse, and the Colonial Journey: Imagery in Conquest of the New World."  Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 10 (1994) 53-72. Reprinted in The Year 2000: Essays in the End (ed. Charles B. Strozier; New York: New York University Press, 1997) 42-58.

 

--------."Eschatology."  Dictionary of Feminist Theology (ed. Letty M. Russell and J. Shannon Clarkson; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996).

 

--------.  "Piling Together & Hopefully Saving: Eschatology as a Feminist Problem."  The Eden Journal 1 (1992).

 

Palmer, Susan J.  "Woman as World Savior: The Feminization of the Millennium in New Religious Movements."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 159-71.

 

Pippin, Tina Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image.  London: Routledge, 1999.

 

--------.  Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John, Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

 

Ruether, Rosemary Radford.  "In Christ No More Male and Female? The Question of Gender and Redemption in the New Testament," and "Gender and Redemption in the Patristic Era: Conflicting Perspectives."  In Women and Redemption: A Theological History (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998) 12-77.

 

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth.  The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment, 2d ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.

 

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Psychological

Creelan, Paul.  "Watson as Mythmaker; The Millenarian Sources of Watsonian Behaviorism."  JSSR 24 (1985) 194-216.

 

Festinger, Leon, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World.  New York: Harper and Row, 1965; original 1956.

 

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Thematic

Jack, Alison.  "An Arboreal Sign of the End-Time (4Q385 2)."  Journal of Jewish Studies 47 (1996) 337-44.

 

Lerner, Robert B.  "Millennialism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Continuum, 1998) 326-60.

 

McGinn, Bernard.  "The Last Judgment in Christian Tradition."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Continuum, 1998) 361-401.

 

Otzen, Benedikt.  "The Paradise Trees in Jewish Apocalyptic: Tree of Knowledge, Tree of Life."  In Apocryphon Severini (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1993) 140-54.

 

Rusconi, Robert.  "Antichrist and Antichrists."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Continuum, 1998) 287-325.

 

VanderKam, James C.  "Exile in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature."  In Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions (ed. James M. Scott; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997) 89-109.

 

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Theological

Braaten, Carl E.  "The Significance of Apocalypticism for Systematic Theology."   Interpretation 25 (1971) 480-99.

 

Bultmann, Rudolf.  History and Eschatology. The Presence of Eternity.  New York: Harper, 1962.

 

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--------.  Eternity in Time: A Study of Karl Rahner's Eschatology.   Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquhanna University Press, 1988.

 

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