Bibliography 2: #BIB32438

Key	BIB32438
Reference type	Book Section
Title	The End Is Nigh : Failed Prophecy, Apocalypticism, and the Rationalization of Violence in New Religious Eschatologies
Book title	The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology
Author	Partidge, Christopher
Editor	Walls, Jerry L.
Year	2009
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Place published	New York ; Oxford
Abstract	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.
Notes	"Baha'is under the Provisions of the Covenant": p. 197.
Language	English
Keywords	MILLENNIALISM; ESCHATOLOGY; APOCALYPTICISM; VIOLENCE; COVENANT-BREAKING; DISCONFIRMATION; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; BAHA'IS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE COVENANT
Pages	191–212
Section	10.

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