Shadows and Lights of Waco Millennialism Today

Name: Shadows and Lights of Waco Millennialism Today
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ISBN: 9780691089980

ISBN-10: 0691089981

ISBN-13: 9780691089980

Edition: 2002

Authors: James D. Faubion

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When James Faubion visited the site of the Branch Davidian compound after its conflagration, what he found surprised him. Though the popular imagination had relegated the site's millennialist denizens to the radical fringe, Faubion found not psychopathology but a sturdy and comprehensive system for understanding the world. He also found, in the person of Amo Paul Bishop Roden, a fascinating spokeswoman for that system. Based on more than five years of fieldwork, including extensive life-history interviews with Roden, Faubion interprets millennialism as a ''master-pedagogy.'' He reveals it as simultaneously a poetics, a rhetoric, a physics, an approach to history, a course of training, a…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.13" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prolegomena



A Conversion



A Gnosis



An Ethics



A Colonization


Notes


References


Index