The Apocalyptic Complex : : Perspectives, Histories, Persistence /

The Apocalyptic Complex : : Perspectives, Histories, Persistence / / ed. by Matthias Riedl, David Marno, Nadia Al-Bagdadi.

The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, followed by similarly dreadful acts of terror, prompted a new interest in the field of the apocalyptic. There is a steady output of literature on the subject (also referred to as “the End Times.) This book analyzes this continuously published literature...

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MitwirkendeR:
Al-Azmeh, Aziz,
Berezhnaya, Lilya,
Boyd, Katharine,
Cattaruzza, Marina,
Cook, David,
Gillespie, Michael Allen,
Guran, Petre,
Hubbes, László Attila,
Idel, Moshe,
Landes, Richard,
Marno, David,
Riedl, Matthias,
Strozier, Charles B.,
Szönyi, György E.,
Vondung, Klaus,
Whalen, Brett Edward,
HerausgeberIn:
Al-Bagdadi, Nadia,
Marno, David,
Riedl, Matthias,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction. The Resilience of the Apocalyptic
  • Part I. Perspectives
  • The Varieties of Millennial Experience
  • Apocalyptic Violence
  • The Psychology of Apocalypticism
  • Part II. The Middle Ages
  • The Chained Messiah: The Taming of the Apocalyptic Complex in Jewish Mystical Eschatology
  • God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time
  • Christendom, Crusade, and the End of Days: The Dream of World Conversion (1099–1274)
  • From the Last Emperor to the Sleeping Emperor: The Evolution of a Myth
  • Part III. Transformations
  • Radical Hopes: Apocalyptic Longing in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
  • Political Religions, Apocalypticism, and the End of History: Some Considerations
  • Eve’s Last Dream
  • Part IV. Persistence
  • Ukrainian Millennialism: A Historical Overview
  • Abu Muș‘ab Al-Sūrī and Abu Muș‘ab Al-Zarqawī: The Apocalyptic Theorist and the Apocalyptic Practitioner
  • “His Dark Materials.” The Early Apocalypticism of Enoch Recycled in Modern and Postmodern Times
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I. Elements of Online Apocalypticism
  • Appendix II. Select Bibliography for the Study of Apocalypticism
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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