The end(s) of time(s) : apocalypticism, messianism, and utopianism through the ages
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- ISBN: 9004461027
- ISBN: 9789004461024
- ISBN: 9004462430
- ISBN: 9789004462434
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 395 pages) : color illustration
remote - Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The end(s) of time(s) : an introduction / Hans-Christian Lehner -- Christian perspectives on history, eschatology, and transcendence in the Latin Christian Middle Ages / Klaus Herbers -- Byzantine predictions of the end of the world in 500, 1000, and 1492AD / Wolfram Brandes -- The Great Peace and the ends of time in early imperial China / Zhao Lu -- Tibetan Buddhist dystopian narratives and their pedagogical dimensions / Rolf Scheuermann -- Ragnarök : prophecies and notions of the end time in Old Norse religion / Thomas Krümpel -- An overview of Bahá'í eschatology, in a tapestry of five strands / Bernardo Bortolin Kerr -- Beatus of Liebana and the spiritualized understanding of apocalypse in medieval Iberia / Gaelle Bosseman -- Muhammad, Mahdi, antichrist : Muslims in Joachim of Fiore's apocalyptic eschatology / Julia Eva Wannenmacher -- The infernal trinity as passivized pacemaker of salvation history : Satan's particular eschatological activity in Anonymus Bambergensis' Tracts De semine scripturarum and De principe mundi / Matthias Kaup -- Competing eschatological scenarios during the Taiping War, 1851-1864 / Vincent Goossaert -- The messianic quest for an earthly paradise in the modern era of revolution / Jürgen Gebhardt -- Indigenous millennialism : Murabitun Sufism in the black African townships of South Africa / Matthias Gebauer -- Apocalyptic millennialism : the most powerful, volatile, imaginary force in human history / Richard Landes. |
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