Expecting the End: Millennialism in Social and Historical Context

Contents

Contents Preface vii 1. Millenarianism and the Dynamics of Apocalyptic Time 1 Richard Landes 2. Millenarianism and Violence in the Contemporary World 25 John Walliss 3. The Eschatology of Heaven’s Gate 49 Christopher Partridge 4. Millennialism in Contemporary Israeli Politics 67 Brenda E. Brasher 5. Millennialism, Ecumenism, and Fundamentalism 79 Andrew Pierce 6. The Liberal Antichrist—Left Behind in America 97 Darryl Jones 7. After Left Behind—The Paradox of Evangelical Pessimism 113 Crawford Gribben 8. The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists and Millennial Expectation, 1959–2004 131 Kenneth G. C. Newport 9. The Branch Davidians and Religion Reporting—A Ten-Year Retrospective 147 Catherine Wessinger v vi Contents 10. Tensions in Dispensational Eschatology 173 Mark S. Sweetnam 11. Forty Years of Millenarian Thought in the Charismatic Movement 193 Stephen J. Hunt 12. Southcottian Sects from 1790 to the Present Day 213 Gordon Allan 13. The Future of Millennial Expectation 237 Crawford Gribben Notes 241 Bibliography 283 Notes on Contributors 311 Index 315 ...