Stone, Jon R., 1959-

A guide to the end of the world : popular eschatology in America / Jon R. Stone. - New York, New York : Garland Publishing, (c)1993. - xi, 329 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

PART 1. Background discussion on popular eschatology in America PART 2: The literature of American millennialism -- Early British and American millennialism, 1798-1848 -- Post-Millerite millennialism and the spread of dispensationalism 1849-1877 -- The early Bible and Prophecy Conferences, 1878-1895 -- From Zionism to the First World War, 1896-1918 -- Inflation, depression, and the rise of totalitarianism, 1919-1939 -- The Second World War and the new Jewish state, 1940-1948 -- The Cold War (Part 1), 1949-1957 ; -- The Cold War (Part 2), 1958-1966 -- War and peace in the Middle East, 1967-1978 -- Peace and war in the Middle East, 1979-1992 -- Selected amillennial, post-millennial, and anti-premillennial works -- Selected journals and periodicals PART 3. Selected biographical sketches.



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Millennialism--United States--Bibliography.
Millennialism--History.--United States

Eschatology United States

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