Apocalyptic time / / edited by Albert I. Baumgarten.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, vol.86
• TeilnehmendeR: Baumgarten, Albert I.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 86.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Millennial movements are characterized by their nature and perception of time, and the ways in which these groups confront inevitable disappointment and then return to “normal” time. This is the theme for the book Apocalyptic Time . The volume consists of revised essays based on presentations made at an international conference devoted to that theme. Authors adopt a number of disciplinary approaches to the topic, analyzing millennial movements from the three Abrahamic faiths, as well as from the East. This book will be of particular interest to students of millennial movements, who wish to benefit from the comprehensive and comparative view it gives of the phenomenon, based on a wide variety of cases. This work greatly contributes to the theory of millennialism, by supplying specific data and theoretical reflection.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Albert I. Baumgarten -- End of Time and New Time in Medieval Chinese Buddhism / Hubert Seiwert -- Apocalypticism, Symbolic Breakdown and Paranoia: An Application of Lifton's Model to the Death-Rebirth Fantasy / Moshe Hazani -- The Apocalyptic Year 200/815–16 and the Events Surrounding It / David Cook -- I am not the Mahdi, But... / Peter Heine -- The Development of Essenic Eschatology / A. Steudel -- Innere Zeit und apokalyptische Zeit / Aharon R.E. Agus -- Dating the Eschaton: Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Calculations in Late Antiquity / Oded Irshai -- “The Time of the End:” Apocalypticism and its Spiritualization in Abraham Abulafia's Eschatology / Moshe Idel -- Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Space in Kabbalistic Apocalypticism / Rachel Elior -- Abnormal and Normal Time: After the Apocalypse / Gabriel Motzkin -- Why Lubavitch Wants the Messiah Now: Religious Immigration as a Cause of Millenarianism / Adam Jacob Szubin -- The Moral Apocalypse in Byzantium / Jane Baun -- Cognitive Dissonance and Proselytism: An Application of Festinger's Model to Thirteenth-Century Joachites / Emmanuel Wardi -- Awaiting the Last Days... Myth and Disenchantment / Johannes Fried -- Apocalyptic Space / Moshe Barasch -- The Restoration of Israel as Messianic Birth Pangs / Hans G. Kippenberg -- When Prophecy Fails and When it Succeeds: Apocalyptic Prediction and the Re-Entry into Ordinary Time / Stephen D. O'Leary -- Memory and the Metamorphosis of Apocalyptic Time in an Italian Millenarian Movement: The Case of David Lazzaretti and his Followers / Giovanni Filoramo -- Index of Subjects and Names / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Contributors / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Albert I. Baumgarten.