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The apocalyptic complex : perspectives, histories, persistence / edited by Nadia Al-Bagdadi, David Marno, and Matthias Riedl.

Contributor(s): Bagdadi, Nadia [editor.] | Marno, David [editor.] | Riedl, Matthias [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative studies in religion, history, and society: Publisher: Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY, USA : Central European University Press, 2018Description: xxi, 409 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9786155225260; 6155225265Subject(s): Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 202/.3 LOC classification: BS646 | .A6346 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the resilience of the apocalyptic / Matthias Riedl, David Marno -- The varieties of millennial experience / Richard Landes -- Apocalyptic violence / Klaus Vondung -- The psychology of apocalypticism / Charles B. Strozier, Katherine Boyd -- The chained Messiah: the taming of the apocalyptic complex in Jewish mystical eschatology / Moshe Idel -- God's chronography and dissipative time / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Christendom, crusade, and the end of days: the dream of world conversion (1099-1274) / Brett Edward Whalen -- From the last emperor to the sleeping emperor: the evolution of a myth / Petre Guran -- Radical hopes: apocalyptic longing in nineteenth-century philosophy / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Political religions, apocalypticism, and the end of history: some considerations / Marina Cattaruzza -- Eve's last dream / David Marno -- Ukrainian millennialism: a historical overview / Lilya Berezhnaya -- Abu Muṣʹab Al-sūrī and Abu Muṣʹab Al-Zarqawī: the apocalyptic theorist and the apocalyptic practitioner / David Cook -- "His dark materials." The early apocalypticism of Enoch recycled in modern and postmodern times / György E. Szönyi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the resilience of the apocalyptic / Matthias Riedl, David Marno -- The varieties of millennial experience / Richard Landes -- Apocalyptic violence / Klaus Vondung -- The psychology of apocalypticism / Charles B. Strozier, Katherine Boyd -- The chained Messiah: the taming of the apocalyptic complex in Jewish mystical eschatology / Moshe Idel -- God's chronography and dissipative time / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Christendom, crusade, and the end of days: the dream of world conversion (1099-1274) / Brett Edward Whalen -- From the last emperor to the sleeping emperor: the evolution of a myth / Petre Guran -- Radical hopes: apocalyptic longing in nineteenth-century philosophy / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Political religions, apocalypticism, and the end of history: some considerations / Marina Cattaruzza -- Eve's last dream / David Marno -- Ukrainian millennialism: a historical overview / Lilya Berezhnaya -- Abu Muṣʹab Al-sūrī and Abu Muṣʹab Al-Zarqawī: the apocalyptic theorist and the apocalyptic practitioner / David Cook -- "His dark materials." The early apocalypticism of Enoch recycled in modern and postmodern times / György E. Szönyi.

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