As we approach the millennium, apocolyptic expectations are rising in North America and throughout the world. Outside the symbolic aura of the millennium, this excitation is fed by currents of unsettling social and cultural change. The millennial myth ingrained in American culture is continually generating new movements, which draw upon the myth and also reshape and reconstruct it. This text examines many types of apocolypticism such as economic, racialist, environmental, feminist, as well as those erupting from established churches. Many of these movements are volatile and potentially...
As we approach the millennium, apocolyptic expectations are rising in North America and throughout the world. Outside the symbolic aura of the millenn...
Scholars of apocalyptic and millennial groups explore various aspects of contemporary apocalyptic fervour including how such movements have gained ground in largely secular societal circles and the links between apocalypticism and established churches.
Scholars of apocalyptic and millennial groups explore various aspects of contemporary apocalyptic fervour including how such movements have gained gro...