Shadows and Lights of Waco
"At once a thoroughly engrossing project and a wonderfully experimental piece of writing, this is a book of deep and original arguments."—Susan Friend Harding, author of The Book of Jerry Falwell
When James Faubion visited the site of the Branch Davidian compound after its conflagration, what he found surprised him. Though the popular imagination had relegated the site's millennialist denizens to the radical fringe, Faubion found not psychopathology but a sturdy and comprehensive system for understanding the world. Les mer
This disjunction prompts Faubion to investigate how the mainstream came to confine religion to an inner and other-worldly faith--an inquiry that allows him to account for the irrationalization of millennialism. Against this historical background, we can discern the genealogy of Adventist millennialism and make sense of contemporary religious events, including the actions of a small group in the central Texas prairie.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Princeton University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 264
- ISBN
- 9780691089980
- Utgivelsesår
- 2001
- Format
- 24 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"At once a thoroughly engrossing project and a wonderfully experimental piece of writing, this is a book of deep and original arguments."—Susan Friend Harding, author of The Book of Jerry Falwell