Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Ms.Calculating the Apocalypse
- The Apocalyptic, Gender and American Christian Fundamentalism
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11
- Apocalyptus Interruptus: Christian Fundamentalists, Sodomy, and The End
- The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex
- ‘The Second Descent of the Spirit of Life from God’: The Assumption of Jemima Wilkinson
- Making Space, Taking Space: The Dynamics of 1980s Peace Activist Women's Efforts to Reclaim and Transform the Public Arena
- ‘Before, the Cup Was Filling Up. Now It Is Flowing Over’: The Eschatology of Fluids
- Visions of Mary, Wounds of Christ: Women Stigmatics in the Apocalyptic Piety of Recent Marian Apparitions
- Rhetoric of the Rejected Body at ‘Heaven's Gate’
- Eccentric Citizens: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Technomillennium
- Index
Series Foreword
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Ms.Calculating the Apocalypse
- The Apocalyptic, Gender and American Christian Fundamentalism
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11
- Apocalyptus Interruptus: Christian Fundamentalists, Sodomy, and The End
- The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex
- ‘The Second Descent of the Spirit of Life from God’: The Assumption of Jemima Wilkinson
- Making Space, Taking Space: The Dynamics of 1980s Peace Activist Women's Efforts to Reclaim and Transform the Public Arena
- ‘Before, the Cup Was Filling Up. Now It Is Flowing Over’: The Eschatology of Fluids
- Visions of Mary, Wounds of Christ: Women Stigmatics in the Apocalyptic Piety of Recent Marian Apparitions
- Rhetoric of the Rejected Body at ‘Heaven's Gate’
- Eccentric Citizens: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Technomillennium
- Index
Summary
The Millennialism and Society series had its genesis in the 1996–2002 Annual meetings of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. Each year, those meetings brought together an international array of scholars to discuss the texts and traditions of religious revelation or apocalypses concerning the end of the world as we know it, whether in a tumultuous final judgment or a utopian eternal paradise. As apocalyptic texts advance an argument that massive change on earth is possible and even desirable, the overarching scholarly goal of those gatherings was to attain a richer, more nuanced understanding of what some argue are the most ancient ideas of social change.
The series consists of three volumes. Gender and Apocalyptic Desire focuses on the significance of sex and sexuality for the apocalyptic traditions, and on gender as a critical framing element within apocalyptic narratives as well as for how apocalyptic narratives have been appropriated. The End That Does recounts the myriad cultural contributions that apocalyptic concepts and energies have spawned, from atomic films to rap. The third volume, War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth, critically evaluates the variety of theories employed to analyze the persistence of apocalyptic beliefs and activity into the present day. Taken together, Millennialism and Society represents a sustained effort on the part of an established scholarly network to advance our understanding of what frequently has been a rather unruly element in our cultural heritage.
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- Gender and Apocalyptic Desire , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2006