Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future

by Jeffrey Kaplan (Editor)

Overview

This volume encompasses an array of material exploring the millennium phenomenon and the violent excitement it provokes. Consisting of three core parts, the book combines pertinent documents with insightful commentary and discussion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714682594
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/27/2002
Series:	Cass Series on Political Violence
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Kaplan

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jeffrey Kaplan; Part 1 Millennium-Related Security Reports; Chapter 2 Project Megiddo; Chapter 3 Doomsday Religious Movements; Chapter 4 Events at the End of the Millennium: Possible Implications for the Public Order in Jerusalem, Ehud Sprinzak, Ya'akov Ariel, Uri Ne'eman, Amnon Ramon; Part 2 Scholarly Analysis of The Three Millennium Reports; Chapter 5 Project Megiddo, the FBI and the Academic Community, Michael Barkun; Chapter 6 Questioning the Frame: The Canadian, Israeli and US Reports, Eugene V. Gallagher; Chapter 7 Ten Comments on Watching Closely the Gaps Between Beliefs and Actions, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; Part 3 Wider Issues in the Millennium Debate; Chapter 8 Spectres and Shadows: Aum Shinrikyô and the Road to Megiddo, Ian Reader; Chapter 9 Apocalypse – Not in Finland. Millenarianism and Expectations on the Eve of the Year 2000, Leena Malkki; Chapter 10 Cult and Anticult Totalism: Reciprocal Escalation and Violence, Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony; Part 4 The Medieval Context; Chapter 11 What Happens when Jesus Doesn't Come: Jewish and Christian Relations in Apocalyptic Time, Richard Landes; Chapter 12 Medieval Apocalypticism, Millennialism and Violence, E. Randolph Daniel;

Editorial Reviews

Scholars of religion and cults, politics, history, and other fields analyze the concerns that deranged millenarians would disrupt society when the calendar flipped over three zeros. They detail three reports in the US, Canada, and Israel, but also look at events and non-events in Japan and Finland, and at outbreaks of millennialism during the Middle Ages. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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