Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America ebook

Imagining the End: Vision. has been added to your Cart. Magnus Bernhardsson is Assistant Professor at Hofstra University.

Imagining the End: Vision. Abbas Amanat is Professor of History at Yale University, and Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Abbas Amanat is Professor of History at Yale University, and Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

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Abbas Amanat Magnus Bernhardsson New Haven, Connecticut. Imagining the End. served as a driving force behind major currents in human history from the rise of new institutional religions to political revolutions and intellectual movements

Abbas Amanat Magnus Bernhardsson New Haven, Connecticut. Abbas Amanat is Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Middle. served as a driving force behind major currents in human history from the rise of new institutional religions to political revolutions and intellectual movements. The purpose of this collection is to address these themes beyond conventional understandings of millennialism. Further, it aims to evaluate the political, cultural and social manifestations of millennialism starting in the ancient Middle East where earliest paradigms of the apocalyptic narrative were shaped.

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Imagining the End book. Packed into all major monotheistic religions is a powerful theological. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America.

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It demonstrates how visions of the End and eschatological scenarios - particularly the cycles of. .Magnus Thorkell Bernhardsson, Abbas Amanat. 15 The Middle East in Modern American Popular Prophetic Belief.

It demonstrates how visions of the End and eschatological scenarios - particularly the cycles of destruction and renewal in the canons of the major religions of the Middle East - have generated complex interpretations in cultures as diverse as early Judaism, classical Islam, medieval Europe, Africa, China, Iran and the United States. In the American context, unusually rich for religious experimentation, such motifs have given rise to prophetic visions and millennial hopes.

Amanat, Abbas (November 15, 2008). The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896. Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from Ancient Middle East to Modern America (2002). Cities and Trade: Consul Abbot on the Economy and Society of Iran, 1847-1866 (London: Ithaca Press, 1983). For PDFs of some of the above and more see: Abbas Amanat in Academia.

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