Efforts to set up isolated societies from scratch have failed in much more clement places, sometimes very nastily; the messianic and millenarian tendencies behind such endeavours, clearly seen in ...

“The Iranian period is finished, I think,” Rifi told me. “In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.” ...

Revealing that... Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium Kenelm Burridge Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and ...

For a comprehensive study of Southcottian communities in En gland in the period after Southcott's death, see Philip Lockley, “Millenarian Religion and Radical Politics in Britain 1815–1835: A Study of ...

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“The Taiping was a massive millenarian rebellion led by a frustrated scholar of peasant background, Hong Xiuquan. Hong's fanatical visions merged with a rudimentary understanding of Christianity ...

She maintains active research interests in broad cultural formations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Asia – such as popular culture, modernism, and millenarian movements – within the ...

In another piece, a columnist wondered whether "it might be pointless to apply political logic to the horrors perpetrated by ...

No government in Jerusalem can tolerate repeated, escalatory missile attacks from a millenarian state explicitly dedicated to ...

Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of 'responsible government' in early British India Sudipta Sen 7. 'Green and pleasant lands': England and the Holy Land in plebeian ...

Some 40,000 Welshmen died during the First World War. The deaths were only one aspect of the tribulations which the Welsh, in common with the rest of combatant Europe, suffered as a result of the ...

The probability of hallucinating rises with any of several possible functional shifts within the brain's awareness system. Anything that prompts a move from word-based thinking to imagistic or ...