The End of Time: Faith and the Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium - Couverture rigide

Thompson, Damian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1856197956 ISBN 13 : 9781856197953

Editeur : Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

As the year 2000 approaches, the world is witnessing a disturbing resurgence of apocalyptic belief. Across the globe apparitions of the Virgin Mary prophesy the collapse of evil and the triumph of the Papacy, while in Latin America and the Far East a fundamentalist Protestantism is forecasting the Second Coming. In the Texas desert and the Tokyo subway, apocalyptic believers have already resorted to violence, raising the spectre of worldwide millenial panic as hundreds of cults await the end of time. Meanwhile, the secular world is increasingly fascinated by reports of UFOs, angelic visitors and the mysteries of a Mayan calendar - apparently unrelated occurrences which seem to point to the dawn of time. This study of the roots of apocalyptic belief and its often unrecognized role in modern society aims to redefine our concepts of time and faith. .

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

THE BOOK: Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the massacre at Waco the solar temple suicdes, the Japanese subway attack, UFO's, angelic vistors and other apparently unrelated phenomenia and places them in the context of the dawning of new world at the time of the millennium.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856197956
• ISBN 13: 9781856197953
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 365
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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