Journal of Millennial Studies

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How Pat Finally Gets Even: 
Apocalyptic Asteroids and American Politics in Pat Robertson's The End of the Age
Justin Watson, Florida State University
Robertson's novel, while not a literary masterpiece, reveals much about his character and worldview.  84K.

Seventeenth Century

• The Revolutionary Roots of Anglo-American Millenarianism:

Robert Mason's Israel's Redemption and Christ's Personall Reign on Earth
    Mark Bell , Balliol College
Study of an English contemporary of New England colonial millennialism.  46K.
 
• Cross-Cultural Apocalypse in the Contact Generation of Native Americans and New England

    Craig White, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Examines the replication of the genre of apocalypse in the Christian converts of the Puritan "praying towns." 35K
 
 
• The Apocalypse of John Cotton

    John Yandell, Independent Scholar
The millennial interpretations of one of America's first theologians. 32K

• A Comparison of Millennial Rhetoric:

Alexander Cambell's Christian Millennialism and Robert Owen's Secular Millennialism
Rick Cherok, Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary
Comparison of 19th century popular visions of millennialism, as seen through a famous debate between two representatives.  27K.
 

• Brazil's Canudos as a Millennarian Movement

    Robert Levine, University of Miami
Religious and millennarian aspects of the nineteenth century revolt among Brazil's Indians.  63K.
 
• Facing the Divide: Turn of the Century Stage Magician's Presentations of Rationalism and the Occult

    Fred Nadis, University of Texas
The translation of spiritualism and seances into the controlled science of "magic" in Houdini and his contemporaries.  43K.
 
• Deliverance Deferred: Growth in Millennial Heaven

Cathy Gutierrez, Sweet Briar College

• Till the End of Time: The Differential Attraction of the "Regime of Salvation" of Canudos

 Edwin Reesink, Federal University of Bahia

Examination of how Canudos' utopia attracted different groups for different reasons.  91K.

Twentieth Century

• Millennial Transformations

• The Big Bang and the Big Bomb:

Examining the Role of Science and Technology in Apocalyptic Belief Systems
    Christopher Helland, University of Toronto
"Science" as symbol or integral fact of religious life in new religious movements.  32K.
 
• Negotiating Finality: Electro-Folk Rhetorics of Apocalypse

    Robert Glenn Howard, University of Oregon
Examination of modes of communication between end-time believers on the web.  Very large file, many graphics.  5.7M.
 
• Rastafarianism and the Third Millennium:

Cultural Liberation and the Judgment of the World
    Leslie R. James, DePauw University
Cultural, historical, and sociological bases of Jamaica's indigenous millennial system.  134K.
 
• Massive Retaliation and the Specter of Salvation

    Andrew Johnston, University of Western Ontario
U.S. Cold War foreign policy, examined through the lens of Dulles' millennialistic beliefs. 95K
 
• Surfing the Millennial Web of Dreams

    Jayne Loader, Independent Scholar
Examination of millennial websites, formatted for HTML viewing.
 
• Fascist Apocalypse: William Pelley and Millennial Extremism

    David Lobb, Syracuse University
1930's right-winger William Pelley and his broadcast dreams of fascist utopia.  29K.
 
• The Wonderful World Tomorrow:

Herbert W. Armstrong's Vision of Life After the Apocalypse
    Scott Lupo, University of Nevada
In the 1940's, Armstrong broadcast his own vision of the world to come. 54K.

• "The Plate in my Head is a Government Plot":

Visions of the Eschaton in UFO Conspiracy Theory
    Carol Matthews, University of Kansas
Comparison of the worldview structure of UFO believers to ancient Christian gnosticism. 76K.
 
• Healing for the Millennium: Master Dang and Spiritual Human Yoga

    Jean-Francois Mayer, University of Fribourg
A New Age religious group founded by a Vietnamese immigrant to the United States. 44K
 
• The Missing Perspective: Psychology and Millennial Studies

    Glenn McGhee, Gulf Coast Community College
Application of evolutionary psychology to millennialism and new religious movements. 57K
 
• The Apocalyptic Imagination Reborn: Atomic Bomb Cinema at the Dawn of a New Millennium

    Jerome F. Shapiro, Hiroshima University
Examines "the bomb" as a metaphor and symbol for a certain type of apocalyptic film. 139K
 
• Contemporary American Drama Discovers Apocalypse

Elinor Fuchs, Yale University

Examines the history of the American drama and it use of an apocalyptic theme.

• Apocalypse and the Savior of the World in the American Films of the '90s

    Kerstin Stutterheim, Independent Scholar

The hero of the American end-of-the-world genre, such as "Independence Day," is brought into the light. 39K

 


 

 

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