ISBN:
1435618661
,
9781435618664
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 366 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Millennial New World
DDC:
306/.1/098
Keywords:
Millennialism History
;
Latin America Religion
Abstract:
This is a study of millennialism - the idea that something climactic will happen in the year 2000 - in Latin America, from the pre-Columbian period up to the present
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Definitions""; ""The Attributes of Millennialism""; ""1 Crisis and Salvation""; ""The Imminent End""; ""Messianic Imperialism""; ""The Last World Emperor""; ""Recurring Ends""; ""Joachim of Fiore and the Americas""; ""Signs""; ""The Perpetual Threshold""; ""Collective Death""; ""2 The Chosen People""; ""Symbolic Inversion""; ""Reduction and Polarization""; ""The New Humanity""; ""Divine Alliance""; ""The New Morality""; ""A Practical Faith""; ""3 Nativist Rebellions""; ""The Extirpation of Christianity""; ""Strategic Borrowing""; ""The War of Mixtón""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Taqui Onqoy""""The Pueblo Revolt""; ""The Tzeltal Rebellion""; ""The Caste War""; ""Andean Rebellions""; ""4 The Promise of Paradise""; ""The Dissipating Image""; ""A Roaming Locus""; ""Utopia and Subversion""; ""Return to the Future""; ""Fragmentation and Unity""; ""The Land-without-Evil""; ""Eden and El Dorado""; ""The Columbian Discovery of Paradise""; ""Millennial Missions""; ""5 Return of the Cultural Hero""; ""Quetzalcóatl and Saint Thomas""; ""The Myth of InkarrÃ""; ""Son of the Sun""; ""6 The Messiah""; ""Supernatural Advantage""; ""Dialogical Power""; ""The Broken Promise""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Lope de Aguirre""""Simón BolÃvar""; ""Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre""; ""Juan and Evita Perón""; ""The Messiahs of Brazil""; ""Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-356) index
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195124324.001.0001
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