A Doomsday Reader : : Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation / / ed. by Ted Daniels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• HerausgeberIn: Daniels, Ted,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The approach of the year 2000 has made the study of apocalyptic movements trendy. But groups anticipating the end of the world will continue to predict Armageddon even after the calendar clicks to triple 0s. A Doomsday Reader brings together pronouncements, edicts, and scriptures written by prominen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• chapter 1. MILLENNIALISM IN WORLD RELIGIONS
• part I. Enlightenment and Secular Millenarianism
• chapter 2. MARXISM
• The Communist Manifesto
• chapter 3. NAZISM
• Mein Kampf, Volume 2
• Chapter 4. ENVIRONMENTALISM, POLITICS, AND PROGRESS
• World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
• part II. Millennial Evil
• chapter 5. A ROYALIST APOCALYPSE
• The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
• chapter 6. MYTHS OF POWER
• The Turner Diaries
• chapter 7. THE NEW WORLD ORDER
• Mission Statement of the Council on Foreign Relations
• part III. Well-Known Contemporary Movements
• chapter 8. THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS
• Chapter 1: The First Seal
• chapter 9. THE ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE
• We Address This Final Message to All Those Who Can Still Understand the Voice of Wisdom.
• chapter 10. AUM SHINRI KYO AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR
• The World after the Final War (The Millennium)
• chapter 11. THE MONTANA FREEMEN
• Our de jure county government pursuant to the Word of Almighty God
• chapter 12. COMET HALE-BOPP, PLANET NIBIRU, THE MASS LANDING, AND HEAVEN’S GATE
• Crew from the Evolutionary Level above Human Offers—Last Chance to Advance beyond Human
• THE END
• WORKS CITED
• INDEX
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR