In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism offers a timely and indispensable exploration of how societies make sense of their Ends-and their hoped-for new beginnings. This ground-breaking volume gathers leading scholars to trace the evolution, meanings, and enduring potency of apocalyptic and millennial ideas across religious, secular, and cultural landscapes. From ancient revelatory texts to contemporary political movements and popular culture, the book…mehr
In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism offers a timely and indispensable exploration of how societies make sense of their Ends-and their hoped-for new beginnings. This ground-breaking volume gathers leading scholars to trace the evolution, meanings, and enduring potency of apocalyptic and millennial ideas across religious, secular, and cultural landscapes. From ancient revelatory texts to contemporary political movements and popular culture, the book dissects how these concepts function not just as prophecies of doom, but as frameworks for resistance, renewal, and transformation. Through meticulous historical analysis and bold theoretical interventions, the contributors interrogate core debates-from the distinctions between apocalypticism and millennialism to their radical entanglements with justice, space, temporality, and morality. This volume dismantles simplistic portrayals of End Times thinking, revealing instead its nuanced, world-shaping logic. Whether manifest in religious movements or global politics, apocalypse is no longer a marginal concern-it is the defining hermeneutic of our times. Scholarly, provocative, and urgent, this Handbook is essential reading for researchers, students, and anyone seeking to understand how humanity envisions and enacts its endings, and potentially, new beginnings.
Tristan Sturm in Reader in Geography at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Andrew Crome is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
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Introduction Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) Part I: Traditions 1. Jewish Matt Goldish (Ohio State University USA) 2. Christian Eugene V. Gallagher (Connecticut College USA) 3. Islamic David Cook (Rice University USA) 4. African Asonzeh Ukah (University of Cape Town South Africa) 5. Japanese Kurita Hidehiko (Bukkyo University Japan) 6. Chinese Vincent Goossaert (Ecole pratique des hautes études EPHE PSL France) 7. Russian Victor A. Shnirelman (Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow) 8. Cargo Cults Garry Trompf (University of Sydney Australia) Part II: Theories 9. Critical Theory Lee Quinby (CUNY USA) 10. Political Theology Thomas Lynch (University of Chichester UK) 11. New Religious Movements Alastair Lockhart (University of Cambridge UK) & Eileen Barker (London School of Economics UK) 12. Norman Cohn Lorenzo Ferrari (University of Modena Italy) 13. Postapocalyptic Robert Folger (Heidelberg University Germany) & Jenny Stümer (Heidelberg University Germany) Part III: Themes 14. Themes Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 15. Popular Culture Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 16. Poetry Michael Dunn (Heidelberg University Germany) 17. Anthropocene Stefan Skrimshire (University of Leeds UK) 18. Women and Gender Sarah Harvey (London School of Economics UK) & Suzanne Newcombe (The Open University UK) 19. Violence Sean Durbin (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 20. Conspiracies Susannah Crockford (University of Exeter UK) 21. UFOs Robert Pearson-Flaherty (Independent scholar based in Korea) 22. Archaeology David Anderson (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Maarten Blaauw (Queen's University Belfast UK) Part IV: Temporalities 23. Temporalities Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 24. Comprehensive Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Canada) 25. Passive/Preparatory Crawford Gribben (Queen's University Belfast UK) 26. Preemptive Michael Barkun (Syracuse University USA) 27. Preventative/Radical Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) Glossary Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK)
Introduction Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) Part I: Traditions 1. Jewish Matt Goldish (Ohio State University USA) 2. Christian Eugene V. Gallagher (Connecticut College USA) 3. Islamic David Cook (Rice University USA) 4. African Asonzeh Ukah (University of Cape Town South Africa) 5. Japanese Kurita Hidehiko (Bukkyo University Japan) 6. Chinese Vincent Goossaert (Ecole pratique des hautes études EPHE PSL France) 7. Russian Victor A. Shnirelman (Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow) 8. Cargo Cults Garry Trompf (University of Sydney Australia) Part II: Theories 9. Critical Theory Lee Quinby (CUNY USA) 10. Political Theology Thomas Lynch (University of Chichester UK) 11. New Religious Movements Alastair Lockhart (University of Cambridge UK) & Eileen Barker (London School of Economics UK) 12. Norman Cohn Lorenzo Ferrari (University of Modena Italy) 13. Postapocalyptic Robert Folger (Heidelberg University Germany) & Jenny Stümer (Heidelberg University Germany) Part III: Themes 14. Themes Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 15. Popular Culture Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 16. Poetry Michael Dunn (Heidelberg University Germany) 17. Anthropocene Stefan Skrimshire (University of Leeds UK) 18. Women and Gender Sarah Harvey (London School of Economics UK) & Suzanne Newcombe (The Open University UK) 19. Violence Sean Durbin (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 20. Conspiracies Susannah Crockford (University of Exeter UK) 21. UFOs Robert Pearson-Flaherty (Independent scholar based in Korea) 22. Archaeology David Anderson (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Maarten Blaauw (Queen's University Belfast UK) Part IV: Temporalities 23. Temporalities Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 24. Comprehensive Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Canada) 25. Passive/Preparatory Crawford Gribben (Queen's University Belfast UK) 26. Preemptive Michael Barkun (Syracuse University USA) 27. Preventative/Radical Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) Glossary Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast UK) & Andrew Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University UK)
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