Bibliography: 9V8RIHWC

key	9V8RIHWC
title	The End Is Nigh : Failed Prophecy, Apocalypticism, and the Rationalization of Violence in New Religious Eschatologies
author	Partidge, Christopher
item type	Book section
publication year	2009
date	2009
publication title	The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology
abstract note	In popular discourse, apocalypticism has been the feature most often associated with new religious movements. In the theologies of many of the prominent new religions, end-time discourse is conspicuous. Several terms are used by scholars to discuss apocalyptic beliefs, notably apocalypticism, millennialism, and millenarianism, all of which overlap, clustering around the same general eschatological focus—the end of the present world. In the study of new religions, the term apocalypticism has tended to refer to catastrophism and, more often than not, to eschatological scenarios which, despairing of a political or religious transformation of the world, look to cataclysmic intervention of a divine, otherworldly, or superhuman kind. This article discusses millenarian adventism and failed prophecy, Jehovah's Witness eschatology, apocalypticism and violence involving Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, and eschatology and violence.
pages	191-212
publisher	Oxford University Press
place	New York ; Oxford
language	English
manual tags	COVENANT-BREAKING; ESCHATOLOGY; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; VIOLENCE; MILLENNIALISM; BAHA'IS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE COVENANT; APOCALYPTICISM; DISCONFIRMATION
editor	Walls, Jerry L.