End-time visions : the road to Armageddon? / by Richard Abanes. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, (c)1998.Description: xii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780805417692
- 9781568581040
- BT876
- BT876.A117.E538 1998
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Discusses the increased spirituality and belief that the end of the world is near which is preceding the new millennium and which has given rise to doomsayers and their organizations, such as David Koresh, Aum Shinrikyo, Heaven's Gate, the Order of the Solar Temple, and others. Cites historical antecedants from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Introduction -- 1990s: decade of death -- Seers, sages, and soothsayers -- "Thus saith the lord" -- Patriots and militiamen -- A timeless obsession -- Nostradamus -- Miller's millennial madness -- Jehovah's witnesses: Armageddon, Incorporated -- Signs of the times revisited -- The bible tells me so? -- Millennial mindsets -- Appendix a: the North DakotaE mystery solved -- Appendix b: calendar confusion -- Appendix c: timeline of doom -- Appendix d: inside heaven's gate -- Notes -- Index.
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