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Power of revalations – eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context ...
Milan Tomašević
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The problem of Millenarism [PDF]
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1975 The myth of the recurrence of the golden age after a period of accelerating miseries ("messianic woes") in the near future is of course not peculiar to the chiliasm of the European later middle ages.
Erik af Edholm
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Millenarism: History, Sociology, and Cross‐Cultural Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Religious History, 2000 This article provides a working agenda for historians of religion who seek to test the social, scientific and cross-cultural analysis of millenarism. It provides a critique of the work of historians and sociologists of millenarism, including Norman Cohn, Walter Nigg, Mircea Eliade, Michael Barkun, and others.
Carmen Bernand
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The Samin movement and millenarism
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 1976 by the late Professor Harry Benda and Lance Castles was published in Bijdragen in 1969. It was preceded by a series of articles by The Siauw Giap, who tried to explain more specifically the movement's economic backgrounds. And most recently a third article on the Samin movement, written by Victor King, who tried to analyse this phenomenon in the ...
A. Pieter E. Korver
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Lusitania Sacra, 2021 Lusitania Sacra, No 42 (2020): A historiografia das Inquisi es: das aboli es Segunda Guerra ...
Carla Vieira
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Looking through the Vizão Feita por Xpo a el Rey Dom Affonso Henriques (1659) Franciscans in India and the legitimization of the Braganza monarchy [PDF]
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2016 Early modern Portuguese political providentialism has attracted significant scholarly interest in recent years. Whether in reference to the legitimization of imperialism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to the divine justification of royal power
Ângela Barreto Xavier
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Millenarism in Greco-Roman Palestine
Religion, 1974 Religion 4 (1974) 26-46.
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Les premiers jalons du millénarisme : ferments d’utopie ?
Kentron, 2010 The first texts regarded as the milestones of the millenarist conception are anchored in the tradition of apocalyptic prophecy and thus they may have been influenced by Ancient Iran and Judaism. Greek paganism probably also
Christine Dumas-Reungoat
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Guatemala in the 1980s : A Genocide Turned into Ethnocide? [PDF]
, 2006 While the Guatemalan Truth Commission came to the conclusion that agents of the state had committed acts of genocide in the early 1980s, fundamental questions remain. Should we indeed speak of the massacres committed between 1981 and 1983 in Guatemala as
Oettler, Anika
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Modes of institutionalization in the Hare Krishna movement [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this article is to consider the extent to which individuals are institutionalized by a religious tradition. I will base my discussion on Whitehouse’s theory of ‘modes of religiosity’ and a brief description of three life histories of ...
Adami, Vítor Hugo
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