Bibliograph

Heaven on earth, the varieties of the millennial experience, Richard Landes

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Heaven on earth, the varieties of the millennial experience, Richard Landes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-478) and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Heaven on earth

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

666491723

Responsibility statement

Richard Landes

Sub title

the varieties of the millennial experience

Table Of Contents

The, varieties of the millennial experience -- Roosters and owls: on the dynamics of the apocalyptic curve -- Bats and turkeys: historians and recovering the millennial past -- Suicidal millennialism: Xhosa cattle-slaying (1856-1857 CE) -- Commodity millennialism: Papuan cargo cults (twentieth century) -- Imperial millennialism: the monotheist pharaoh Akhenaten (1360-1347 BCE) -- Bipolar millennialism: Taiping (The great peace, 1850-1864) -- Demotic millennialism: civil polities and the dismantling of the prime divider -- Democratic millennialism: French revolution (1789-1815 CE) -- Egalitarian millennialism: Marx the rooster and Marxism (nineteenth century CE) -- Totalitarian millennialism: the Bolshevik apocalypse (1917-1935 CE) -- Genocidal millennialism: Nazi paranoia -- Narcissistic millennialism: UFO cults (1946-2012? CE) -- Enraged millennialism: global Jihad (1400-1500 AH/1979-2076 CE)

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