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

Thompson, Damian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0749386096 ISBN 13: 9780749386092

Casa editrice: Minerva, 1997

Riassunto

As the year 2000 approaches, the world is witnessing a disturbing resurgence of apocalyptic belief. In Latin America and the Far East, millions of people are converting every year to a fundamentalist Protestantism which teaches that the Second Coming is at hand. In this text, the author examines the roots of this apocalyptic belief and its often unrecognised role in the development of modern society. He looks at the phenomenon of millennarianism - a belief in the end of the world which can lead to terrifying extremes of behaviour - and seeks to answer a number of important questions, such as: Why do calender changes have such a profound effect upon the human psyche? Why does the Catholic church, which is perfectly aware that Christ was not born in 1 AD, attach such mystical significance to the year 2000? And why do the disembodied spirits channelled by New Age mediums point to the end of the millennium as a time of astonishing "earth changes"?

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• Editore: Minerva
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0749386096
• ISBN 13: 9780749386092
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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