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	Millenarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Millenarianism (sometimes spelled millenarism or millennarism) is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society after which all things will be changed in a positive (or sometimes negative or ambiguous) direction.
		Millenarian groups typically claim that the current society and its rulers are corrupt, unjust, or otherwise wrong.
		In Medieval millenarianism the world was seen as controlled by demons and even up to the nineteenth century Chinese millenarianism used something like this motif, but with "demon" having a slightly different cultural connotation there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millenarianism (428 words)

	Millennium and Millenarianism
		Millenarian ideas are found by most commentators in the Epistle of St. Barnabas, in the passage treating of the Jewish sabbath; for the resting of God on the seventh day after the creation is explained in the following manner.
		A witness for the continued belief in millenarianism in the province of Asia is St. Melito, Bishop of Sardes in the second century.
		Though millenarianism had found numerous adherents among the Christians and had been upheld by several ecclesiastical theologians, neither in the post-Apostolic period nor in the course of the second century, does it appear as a universal doctrine of the Church or as a part of the Apostolic tradition.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/millennium_and_millenarianism.html (2572 words)

	Millenarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief in a future second coming of Jesus Christ coinciding with certain of millennia after his life.
		Millenarianism is so called because it was to peak at the turn of the millennia and this was supposedly seen in year 1000 and somewhat toward the year 2000.
		In Medieval millenarianism the world was as controlled by demons in the modern world economic rules vast conspiracies guarantee continued oppression.
	www.freeglossary.com /Millenarian (574 words)

	Millenarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief in a future second coming of Jesus Christ, coinciding with certainnumber of millennia after his life.
		Millenarianism is so called because it was thought to peak at the turn of the millennia and this was supposedly seen in the year 1000, and somewhattoward the year 2000.
		Millenarian beliefs can make people ignore conventional rules of behaviour, which can result in violence directed inwards(such as mass suicides) and/or outwards (such as terrorist acts).
	www.therfcc.org /millenarianism-95420.html (413 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 20th Century: Topic 3: Overview
		As the study of human behaviour evolved, it became clear that, although belief in an imminent new world seems to result in specific patterns of behaviour, the phenomenon is not confined to literal belief in the Millennium of Revelation.
		All millenarian movements are distinguished by the abnormal behaviour of their adherents, which can range from retreat to the wilderness to await the End to acts of unimaginable violence designed to bring it about.
		Perhaps the notion of a unified theory of millenarianism is as illusory, and as outdated, as the comprehensive history of historical development.
	www.wwnorton.com /nael/20century/topic_3/welcome.htm (1509 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Millennium and Millenarianism
		Irenaeus of Lyons, a native of Asia Minor, influenced by the companions of St.
		The Protestantism of the sixteenth century ushered in a new epoch of millenarian doctrines.
		A new phase in the development of millenarian views among the Protestants commenced with Pietism.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10307a.htm (2573 words)

	Millenarianism
		Millenarianism (from the Latin mille for "thousand" and annus for "year") is a term whose religious significance derives from Revelation 20:1-6, where John predicts that Satan will be bound for 1000 years.
		Originally a Judeo-Christian concept, millenarianism is now applied by anthropologists and sociologists to parallel phenomena in non-Christian settings, eg, the Ghost Dance of 1890, when many Plains Indian tribes anticipated the destruction of the white man, accompanied by the rejuvenation of the earth and the return of the buffalo in unprecedented numbers.
		In the 19th century, this was the desire to evangelize the North American continent in the Roman Catholic religion; in the 20th century, it is the desire to foster the French language and culture.
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	Millenarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One may start with his discussion on the millenarianism of the 16th century, providing one of the most powerful of the ideologies associated with European...
		Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief in a future second coming of Jesus Christ, coinciding with certain number of millennia after his life.
		Having past the second millennium uneventfully, Millenarianism could be expected to see a decline in popularity for a while.
	www.wikiverse.org /millenarianism (539 words)

	Millenarianism in US domestic politics : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The best-known millenarian group during the Middle Ages were the Anabaptists of Münster in Germany, who briefly established a revolutionary rule in their town, which they expected to be transformed into a “New Jerusalem” as described in the book of Revelations.
		The worldview of millenarianism is teleological and assumes that history (or the current “age”) is moving purposefully in the direction of some inevitable conclusion.
		The instrumentalization of millenarian rhetoric for political purposes has proved to be a useful strategy in marketing Bush as an imperial commander leading his nation through the cataclysm of 9/11 and the cleansing fire of the “war on terror” to a new moral plane.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/04/1713766.php (2733 words)

	The Roots of Fundamentalism
		The main results of the new millenarianism were: (1) The growth in the study and literal interpretation of Scripture, with many books, periodicals, and prophecy conferences; (2) interest in the Jews being restored as a nation; (3) the premillennial return of Christ.
		Millenarians were still in the minority by the turn of the century, and centered in the large cities of the North East and north Midwest.
		Millenarians did not dominate or control the SVM, nor would it be possible to prove that their philosophy of missions was adopted by the SVM.
	www.bibleprophecyrevealed.us /2000/roots.html (1697 words)

	DAVID G. ROWLEY \| "Redeemer Empire": Russian Millenarianism \| The American Historical Review, 104.5 \| The History ...
		The predominant use of the term "millenarian" by historians and social scientists has been to generalize into a typology of human behavior the beliefs and actions of certain early Christian communities who rejected Roman civilization, who allowed themselves to be martyred for their faith, and who lived in expectation of Jesus' imminent return.
		Metcalf examines the kind of millenarianism that spreads "during times of disaster, crises of subsistence, civil war, colonialism, the rapid spread of capitalism, or relative deprivation" and that is manifested in a counter-cultural movement.
		Crisis cult millenarianism is a movement of socially marginal and disaffected groups—usually the most downtrodden and miserable—who reveal their millenarianism in what the mainstream considers to be bizarre and antisocial behavior.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/104.5/ah001582.html (10005 words)

	Millenarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		'''Millenarianism''' or millenarism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society after which all things will be changed in a positive (or sometimes negative or ambiguous) direction.
		Millenarian groups typically claim that the current society and its rulers are corrupt or unjust and will be destroyed soon by a powerful force.
		In Medieval millenarianism the world was seen as controlled by demons, in the modern world economic rules or vast conspiracies are seen as generating oppression.
	millenarianism.area51.ipupdater.com (458 words)

	Millenarianism - InformationBlast
		Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief that the end of the world is soon.
		Its origin is in the belief in the second coming of Jesus Christ, which is often believed to occur a certain number of millennia after his life.
		Millenarianism peaks at the turn of the millennia and this was seen in the year 1000 and somewhat at for the year 2000.
	www.informationblast.com /Millenarian.html (300 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Millenarianism
		Joachimites were a millenarian group that arose from the Franciscans in the thirteenth century.
		The Dulcinian movement was a heretic movement inspired by the Franciscans ideals, influenced by the Joachimites and derived from the Apostolics.
		Apocalypticism is a worldview based on the idea that important matters are hidden from view and they will soon be revealed in a major confrontation of earth-shaking magnitude that will change the course of history.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Millenarianism (1451 words)

	Romantic Millenarian
		Featuring new studies by major art historians as well as by literary critics, Romanticism and Millenarianism puts an expanded and rehistoricized canon of writers and artists to the fore, showing how their figurations of the millennium changed the course of some of the major debates of the period‑debates about revolution, empire, gender and sexuality.
		For Southey, he demonstrates, the millenarianism of Richard Brothers and his followers was an Oriental infection, another licentious import from the empire, symptom of a decadent fashion for all things Eastern.
		Using newly discovered archival sources, Worrall restores to our attention a neglected part of urban political history, not only increasing our knowledge of the millenarian radicalism of the late eighteenth century, but showing it to be as characteristic of the times as the self-conscious historicism that the critic James Chandler has made their defining feature.
	www.wordtrade.com /history/europe/romanticmillenarianR.htm (1964 words)

	Eschaton - Volume 13, Issue 3
		Millenarianism was the belief in a future reign of Christ in a millennium, which differed both in degree and kind from the historic view of the millennium.
		Early millenarianism appeared among radical fringe groups during the English Civil War of the mid-1600s and included the Ranters, Muggletonians, Diggers, Quakers, and the violent Fifth Monarchists.
		Millenarian doctrine was more fully developed during the 1800s, and ultimately evolved into dispensational premillennialism.
	www.credenda.org /issues/13-3eschaton.php (802 words)

	Wilson, Millenarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is precisely this [amalgam] of a radical revolutionary position with traditionalism that accounts for the widespread appeal of [millenarianism] and turns it into such a potent agent of change.
		Though in Japan, millenarianism was, in part, a form of protest against the old political order, Wilson tells us that it was also a celebration such as when abundant harvests finally returned after years of famine.
		As such, it can be seen as an outgrowth of the same "millenarian" confusion that had led people to embark on "okagemaeri" pilgrimages and to join new religions like Tenrikyo and Konkyoko in the decades preceding the Restoration (101).
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/wilson.html (1646 words)

	The End of History? Reflections on Some International Legal Theses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Liberal millenarianism's millenarianism thus consists in its perception that the world may stand on the brink of an unprecedented era of peace and good government, a perception which is millenarian also in the more literal sense that it pertains to the millennium about to begin.
		What this puts in relief is the sense in which liberal millenarianism, for all its professed optimism, is ultimately pessimistic, not - as Fukuyama suggests - because it envisions a world of excessive equality, but because it evokes a world of enduring and immutable inequalities.
		The difference between millenarianism and `inverse millenarianism' appears to be principally one of emphasis, however, for both look at once backwards and forwards.
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol8/No3/art5.html (5392 words)

	MILLENARIANISM AND POPULAR METHODISM IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND AND CANADA
		It is the story of apostasy, and severe judgments are proclaimed against a present considered to be the faint and fallen image of a distant golden age.
		Postulating the dismal and "dead" state of both mainstream Methodism and institutional Christianity, their millenarian faith was that "something would turn up, either the gospel would be [more fully] introduced, or afflictions would come upon the nation" (Valenze 87).
		Given the spiritual imperatives unleashed by Wesley, it is understandable that certain devotional trajectories would lead toward a kind of millenarian pentecostalism, but the degree to which such paths were pursued at the grass-roots level is yet to be fully appreciated.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/26-30/29-05.htm (3459 words)

	MILLENNIALISM (MILLENARIANISM, CHILIASM)
		Instead of a lone millenarian presence, then, Joachim’s work stands as the literate articulation of a widespread oral discussion of millennialism at the turn of 1200, an oral discourse that had never ceased, despite its sudden ups and long downs, since well before Augustine.
		The spectacular success of the movements that could fuel themselves with Joachite "age of the spirit" rhetoric, illustrates the broad social stratum and the liveliness of the religiosity of this (post-)millennial discourse.
		If one limits oneself only to explicitly millenarian groups, the numbers are few until the period of the printing press; if one identifies such groups by their patterns rather than their or others' claims about them, they are far more numerous (Cohn, Pursuit).
	www.mille.org /people/rlpages/millennialism-mw-encyl.html (5427 words)

	RICHARD K. EMMERSON \| The Secret \| The American Historical Review, 104.5 \| The History Cooperative
		The other factor complicating scholarly analysis of millenarianism is the commonplace assumption that the motivations of such groups can be explained in terms of economic, political, or social crises and as responses by marginalized or disaffected groups to some sort of disaster or deprivation.
		Millenarianism is a specific form of apocalypticism, because strictly speaking it is related to the apocalyptic millennium and, more generally, it is associated with the Last Days and often with the violent and sudden overthrow of the powers and authorities that control the present era.
		David G. Rowley's analysis of millenarianism is misled by reliance on Cohn; it is simply not the case, for example, that after Augustine "literal belief in an imminent apocalypse appeared only in movements that deviated sharply from mainstream culture"; Rowley, "'Redeemer Empire': Russian Millenarianism," AHR 104 (December 1999): 1582–1602, 1586.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/104.5/ah001603.html (4906 words)

	Society for Utopian Studies - 14.2
		Catholic Millenarianism: From Savanarola to the Abbé Grégoire.
		IV of Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture (Laursen and Popkin, eds.) 14.2 (2003): 191-93.
		I of Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture (Goldish and Popkin, eds.) 14.2 (2003): 191-93.
	www.utoronto.ca /utopia/journal/14.2.html (1892 words)

	Millenarianism
		Christian millenarian beliefs were derived from Jewish apocalyptic traditions current in the centuries before and after Jesus Christ.
		As Christianity developed into a stable community in the centuries after Jesus, millenarian activity became primarily a fringe movement, associated with such reform movements as Montanism and, in the 13th and 14th centuries, Joachimism and radical Franciscan movements.
		With the upheavals brought on by the Reformation in the 16th century, millenarianism increased and was found, for example, among the Anabaptists.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/millenar.htm (6196 words)

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		One of the heretics, the Gnostic Cerinthus, who flourished towards the end of the first century, proclaimed a splendid kingdom of Christ on earth which He would establish with the risen saints upon His second advent, and pictured the pleasures of this one thousand years in gross, sensual colours (Caius in Eusebius, " Hist.
		Millenarian ideas are found by most commentators in the Epistle of St.
		Some Catholic theologians of the nineteenth century championed a moderate, modified millenarianism, especially in connection with their explanations of the Apocalypse; as Pagani (The End of the World, 1856), Schneider (Die chiliastische Doktrin, 1859), Rohling (Erklarung der Apokalypse des hl.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/10307A.TXT (2538 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 28, No. 2 - July 1971 - BOOK REVIEW - The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The book is, in the main, an extension and elaboration of those articles, which is to say that it participates in their weaknesses as well as their strengths.
		When the Princeton theologians worked out their rigid doctrine of biblical inspiration late in the nineteenth century, they provided a prime support for the literalism of millenarians who were by then attracting large crowds to prophecy and Bible conferences.
		For The Fundamentals include among their authors men who were neither millenarians nor advocates of the Princeton view of inspiration, and the same must be said of the constituency and sometimes the leadership of the peculiar coalitions that gathered under the fundamentalist banner in the 1920's.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1971/v28-2-bookreview3.htm (360 words)

	CSEC LIBRARY -- Millenarianism
		B. In the book of the revelation of St. John, there is related a [symbolic] vision of higher thought, in which the inspired seer beholds the destiny of the suffering and persecuted disciples of Truth.
		The epithet is applied however more distinctly to a limited class of people who predict the return of Jesus in person as the prerequisite of the establishment of the new order of things.
		Confining itself to the letter of Scripture, it anticipates wars, earthquakes, darkening of the sun and moon, tempests upon the sea, and bitter conflicts of the material elements.
	www.endtime.org /library/articles/mille.html (1596 words)

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