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Millennium, Messiahs and Mayhem brings together scholars of apocalyptic and millennial groups to explore aspects of contemporary apocalyptic fervor. Opening with a discussion of various theories of apocalypticism, the editors then analyze how millennialist movements have gained ground in largely secular societal circles. Section three discusses the links between apocalypticism and established churches, while the final part of the book looks at examples of violence and confrontation, from Waco to Solar Temple to the Aum Shinri Kyo subway disaster in Japan.
This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine
groups-including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the
iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various "Catholic" schisms,
such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or
the reappearance of the Virgin Mary. Eleven contributing authors
offer rich ethnographies and sociological insights on new spiritual
groups that highlight the quintessential features of Quebec's new
religions ("sectes" in the francophone media). The editors argue
that Quebec provides a favorable "ecology" for alternative
spirituality, and explore the influences behind this situation: the
rapid decline of the Catholic Church after Vatican Il; the "Quiet
Revolution," a utopian faith in Science; the 1975 Charter of Human
Rights and Freedoms; and an open immigration that welcomes diverse
faiths. The themes of Quebec nationalism found in prophetic
writings that fuel apocalyptic ferment are explored by the editors
who find in these sectarian communities echoes of Quebec's larger
Sovereignty movement.
This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine
groups-including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the
iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various "Catholic" schisms,
such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or
the reappearance of the Virgin Mary. Eleven contributing authors
offer rich ethnographies and sociological insights on new spiritual
groups that highlight the quintessential features of Quebec's new
religions ("sectes" in the francophone media). The editors argue
that Quebec provides a favorable "ecology" for alternative
spirituality, and explore the influences behind this situation: the
rapid decline of the Catholic Church after Vatican Il; the "Quiet
Revolution," a utopian faith in Science; the 1975 Charter of Human
Rights and Freedoms; and an open immigration that welcomes diverse
faiths. The themes of Quebec nationalism found in prophetic
writings that fuel apocalyptic ferment are explored by the editors
who find in these sectarian communities echoes of Quebec's larger
Sovereignty movement.
This book explores the life stories of ten Uyghur women, all
prominent political activists in the international Uyghur advocacy
movement. Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the
1970s-90s, each woman departed from China before 2005 and chose to
settle in Western countries. Today, they work tirelessly to defend
the rights of Uyghurs and Turkic peoples in China, to raise public
awareness of the PRC’s campaign of colonization and population
reduction, recognized by eight countries today as a genocide. These
narratives are based on interviews conducted over Skype or Zoom
between 2020 and 2021, collected as a form of oral history. Relying
on techniques of narrative analysis, the book focuses on the
escalating tensions, turning points and other motivating factors
(religious, political, psychological) that prompted their
transformation in self-identity, ideology, and the emergence of a
new Uyghur-Muslim feminism. The book describes how these women
activists are navigating the competing reality constructions of the
situation in Xinjiang, and effectively restorying a genocide that
is ongoing in their homeland to bring about social and political
change.
The late 1960s and early 1970s constituted a remarkable period for
spiritual experimentation and for the proliferation of new
religious groups. Now the children born into these religions have
come of age. While their parents made the decision as adults to
embrace alternative religious practices, the children have been
raised with a very different orientation toward the larger society.
While they take their religious communities for granted, many of
these children gaze with curiosity at the surrounding secular world
which their parents, not they, chose to reject. The contributors to
this volume examine children from many different alternative
religious movements worldwide, including The Family, Hare Krishna,
Wiccans, and Pagans, Messianic Communities, and the Rajneesh (Osho)
Movement. The essays explore two general questions: 1) What impact
does the presence of children have on a new religion's lifestyle
and chance of surviving into the future? 2) Is child abuse more
likely to occur in unconventional religions, or are children born
into them, the 'new' religions have grown up and have become an
important and rapidly changing social force that we cannot
reasonably dismiss or wisely ignore
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