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...
Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual innovation and the so-called New Age; women's movements and issues and their impact; and politics and civil religion.
Chapters include an...
Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition e...
Encounters between agents of the state and religious organizations have been increasing throughout the world, thus the need to understand the relationships between religion and other major domains of life is increasingly important. In this comprehensive reader on church-state relations, scholars examine the connections between religion and political life from a comparative perspective.
Encounters between agents of the state and religious organizations have been increasing throughout the world, thus the need to understand the rela...
