The End of Time: Faith and the Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium - Tapa dura

Thompson, Damian

 
9780749386092: The End of Time: Faith and the Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium
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ISBN 10: 0749386096 ISBN 13: 9780749386092
Editorial: Minerva, 1997

Sinopsis

As the year 2000 approaches, the world is witnessing a disturbing resurgence of apocalyptic belief. In Latin America and the Far East, millions of people are converting every year to a fundamentalist Protestantism which teaches that the Second Coming is at hand. In this text, the author examines the roots of this apocalyptic belief and its often unrecognised role in the development of modern society. He looks at the phenomenon of millennarianism - a belief in the end of the world which can lead to terrifying extremes of behaviour - and seeks to answer a number of important questions, such as: Why do calender changes have such a profound effect upon the human psyche? Why does the Catholic church, which is perfectly aware that Christ was not born in 1 AD, attach such mystical significance to the year 2000? And why do the disembodied spirits channelled by New Age mediums point to the end of the millennium as a time of astonishing "earth changes"?

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Reseña del editor

THE BOOK: Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the massacre at Waco the solar temple suicdes, the Japanese subway attack, UFO's, angelic vistors and other apparently unrelated phenomenia and places them in the context of the dawning of new world at the time of the millennium.

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As the year 2000 approaches, the world is witnessing a disturbing resurgence of apocalyptic belief. In Latin America and the Far East, millions of people are converting every year to a fundamentalist Protestantism which teaches that the Second Coming is at hand. In this text, the author examines the roots of this apocalyptic belief and its often unrecognised role in the development of modern society. He looks at the phenomenon of millennarianism - a belief in the end of the world which can lead to terrifying extremes of behaviour - and seeks to answer a number of important questions, such as: Why do calender changes have such a profound effect upon the human psyche? Why does the Catholic church, which is perfectly aware that Christ was not born in 1 AD, attach such mystical significance to the year 2000? And why do the disembodied spirits channelled by New Age mediums point to the end of the millennium as a time of astonishing "earth changes"?

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Editorial
Minerva
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0749386096
ISBN 13 
9780749386092
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Número de páginas
384
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