By Richard Landes
This long-awaited examine exhibits that many occasions usually considered as secular--including the French Revolution, Marxism, Bolshevism, Nazism--not merely include key millennialist parts, yet stick with the apocalyptic curve of enthusiastic release, sadness and (often catastrophic) re-entry into "normal time." certainly, as Landes examines the specific millennialism in the back of such contemporary occasions because the emergence of worldwide Jihad considering that 1979, he demanding situations the typical inspiration that glossy historical past is basically pushed via secular pursuits. by means of concentrating on ten largely various case stories, none of which come from Judaism or Christianity, he indicates that millennialism isn't just a cultural common, but additionally an exceptionally adaptive social phenomenon that persists around the sleek and post-modern divides. whilst, he additionally bargains invaluable perception into the social and mental components that force such beliefs.
Ranging from historical Egypt to modern day unidentified flying object cults and international Jihad, Heaven on Earth either provides an eye-opening revisionist argument for the importance of millennialism all through heritage and indicators the reader to the alarming unfold of those ideologies in our global today.
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