Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages

ISBN-13: 9780674003958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 302 str.

Eugen Weber

Opis

Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to the end of the 20th century form the panorama of this book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient, especially with Judaism and Christianity, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time was omnipresent.