By Richard Landes
ISBN-10: 0199753598
ISBN-13: 9780199753598
This long-awaited learn exhibits that many occasions regularly considered as secular--including the French Revolution, Marxism, Bolshevism, Nazism--not in simple terms comprise key millennialist components, yet stick to the apocalyptic curve of enthusiastic release, sadness and (often catastrophic) re-entry into "normal time." certainly, as Landes examines the categorical millennialism at the back of such contemporary occasions because the emergence of world Jihad because 1979, he demanding situations the typical thought that glossy heritage is basically pushed through secular pursuits. via targeting ten extensively diverse case reports, none of which come from Judaism or Christianity, he exhibits that millennialism isn't just a cultural common, but in addition an exceptionally adaptive social phenomenon that persists around the smooth and post-modern divides. whilst, he additionally bargains priceless perception into the social and mental elements that force such beliefs.
Ranging from historical Egypt to modern day unidentified flying object cults and international Jihad, Heaven on Earth either offers an eye-opening revisionist argument for the importance of millennialism all through heritage and indicators the reader to the alarming unfold of those ideologies in our international today.
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