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The end of time : faith and fear in the shadow of the millennium
- Title
- The end of time : faith and fear in the shadow of the millennium / Damian Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, Damian, 1962-
- Publication
- Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1997.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 373 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Damian Thompson examines the roots of millennial beliefs and its often unrecognized role in the development of modern society. He seeks to answer a number of surprising question, such as: Why to calendar changes have such a profound effect upon the human psyche? Why does the Catholic church attach such mystical significance to the year 2000? And why do the disembodied spirits channeled by New Age mediums point to the end of this millennium as a time of astonishing "earth changes"?
- Subject
- Note
- "Originally published in 1996 by Sinclair-Stevenson, London"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-[354]) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. A Brief History of End-Time. 1. The Roots of Apocalypse. 2. The Mystery of the Year 1000. 3. Pursuing the Millennium. 4. A New Jerusalem. 5. Fin de Siecle. 6. The Apocalyptic Century -- Pt. 2. The New Millennium. 7. Thy Kingdom Come. 8. The Great Jubilee. 9. A New Age. 10. Seoul: The Apocalyptic City. 11. 'A Doom is Nearing the Land of the Rising Sun'. 12. Waco and the Culture Wars. 13. The End of Time?
- ISBN
- 0874518490 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 97021661
- OCLC
- 36922587
- ocm36922587
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries