The Millennium:
A Select Bibliography

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    Abanes, Richard. 1998.
    End-time Visions: The Road to Armageddon.  New York: Four Walls Eight Windows,

    Aho, James A. 1990.
    The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.

    Anthony, Dick and Thomas Robbins. 1997.
    "Religious Totalism, Exemplary Dualism, and the Waco Tragedy," in Robbins, Thomas and Susan J. Palmer, eds. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. New York: Routledge. 261-284.

    Bloom, Harold. 1996.
    Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. New York: Reaverhead Books.

    Bowie, Fiona and Christopher Deacy. 1997.
    The Coming Deliverer: Millennial Themes in World Religions.  Dardiff: University of Wales Press,

    Boyer, Paul. 1992.
    When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Bromley, David G. 1997.
    "Construction Apocalypticism," in Robbins, Thomas and Susan J. Palmer, eds. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. New York: Routledge. 31-45.

    Burridge, Kenelm. 1969.
    New Heaven New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

    Chandler, Russell. 1993.
    Doomsday: The End of the World.  Ann Arbor: Servant Publications.

    Cohn, Norman. 1993.
    Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith.  New Have: Yale University Press.

    Dawson, Lorne L. 1998.
    Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious Movements. Toronto: Oxford University Press,    

    Dawson, Lorne L. 1998.
    "When Prophecy Fails and Faith Persists: A Theoretical Overview."  Paper presented to the SSSR, November 1998, Montreal.  Submitted to Nova Religion, (December)

    Gould, Stephen Jay. 1997.
    Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown.  New York: Harmony Books.

    Heard, Alex. 1999.
    Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

    Lamy, Philip. 1996.
    Millennium Rage: Survivalists, White Supremacists, and the Doomsday Prophecy.  New York: Plenum Press.

    Lippy, Charles H. 1988.
    "Millennialism and Adventism," in Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, eds. Vol II. 831-844.

    Marsden, George M. 1980.
    Fundamentalism and American Culture.  New York: Oxford University Press.

    O'Leary, Stephen D. 1994.
    Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Olson, Theodore. 1982.
    Millennialism, Utopianism, and Progress. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

    Robbins, Thomas and Susan J. Palmer, eds. 1997.
    Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. New York: Routledge.

    Schaefer, Peter and Mark Cohen. 1998.
    Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco. Leiden: Brill, 1998.

    Schwartz, Hillel. 1987.
    "Millenarianism: An Overview," in The Encyclopaedia of Religion. Mircea Eliade, ed. Vol 9.

    Thompson, Damian. 1996.
    The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium.  London: Sinclair-Stevenson.

    Tuveson, Ernest Lee. 1949.
    Millennium and Utopia: A Study in the Background of the Idea of Progress. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Wessinger, Catherine L., Ed. 1999.
    Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: Historical Cases. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

    Catherine L Wessinger, 2000.
    How the Millennium Comes Violently : From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate . Seven Bridges Press. click here to read Chapter 3.

    Wojcik, Daniel. 1999.
    The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America.  New York: New York University Press.

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The Millennium Page was created by Christopher W. Smith (cws2p@virginia.edu), an undergraduate history major at the University as partial fulfillment of an independent research project in the Department of Sociology. Mr. Smith was earlier a student in the New Religious Movements course and created a most interesting project on direct sales organizations as para-religious movements. He would welcome your thoughts and comments on The Millennium Page.

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03/28/00