Apocalypses Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages

Name: Apocalypses Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages
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ISBN: 9780674003958

ISBN-10: 0674003950

ISBN-13: 9780674003958

Edition: 1999

Authors: Eugen Weber

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Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to yesterday form the luxuriant panorama in Eugen Weber's profound and elegant book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient and, especially, with those from whom we received our religions, the Jews and earliest Christians, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time, when good would do final battle with evil, was omnipresent. Within centuries, apocalyptic beliefs inspired Crusades, scientific discoveries, works of art, voyages such as those of Columbus, rebellions and reforms. In the new world, American abolitionists, who were so critical to the movement to end slavery, believed in a final reckoning. The…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Eugen Weber was Joan Palevsky Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles.




Introduction



Chronologies and Fins de Siecle



Apocalypses and Millenarianisms



In Dark and Bloody Times



Revivalists and Antichrists



Apocalypse and Science



Enlightenment?



Apocalypse in Worldly Times



Pursuits of the Millennium



Time's Noblest Offspring



The Twentieth Century



Conclusion


Notes


Index