- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 2nd Revised edition edition (28 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099289431
- ISBN-13: 978-0099289432
- Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.9 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 331,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The end of yet another millennium is fast approaching, and all kinds of squirrelly people are coming out of the woodwork. Members of Aum Shinrikyo set off poisoned gas in Tokyo subways while members of Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate bid farewell to this world via lethal pudding, headed for that great mother ship in the sky. Meanwhile, the whole world fearfully anticipates 2000--the year when computers everywhere will trigger mass confusion over the double zero and set us all back a century. Lest you think that our generation is alone in its end-of- the-millennium craziness, Damian Thompson has written a history of millenarianism through the ages, The End of Time.
Technically speaking, the millennium refers to Christ's Second Coming and his thousand-year reign on earth; however, long before Christianity, various people in various corners of the earth have predicted the end of the world--everyone from the ancient Mesopotamians and Persians right up through the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Thompson provides an engrossing survey of four millenarian movements, taking a more in-depth look at the end of the 20th century, a time in which fundamentalism and New Age theology are simultaneously on the rise as people scramble for meaning in these fast-changing times. What better way to prepare for the end of yet another millennium than by reading The End of Time? --Amazon.com
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Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the massacre at Waco, the Solar Temple suicides, the Japanese subway gas attack, UFOs, angelic visitors and other apparently unrelated phenomena and places them in the context of the dawning of a new world at the time of the millennium. This is the revised, updated edition in which Damian Thompson tackles subjects such as the millennium dome and the millennium bug; rejacketed by Vintage for the lead-up to the year 2, 000.
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Thompson's built a career on saying we've never been more gullible. He's wrong - Nostradamus has always been around. Uri Geller? Erich von Daniken? And it's only when they die that the rumour mill can really get going (Christianity, Islam, Rastafarianism). The chapter on Korea's good (did you know all those red neon crosses were runway lights to guide in the airborne Christ the King?) but Michael Shermer and the guys at Skeptic are the ones to follow, also its English equivalent THE Skeptic
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This is a book I keep coming back to reread. It also pointed me towards the works of Norman Cohn for which I am very greatful
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Although there are a couple of gaps in the coverage of apocalpyse cults, ie the Manson Family, and you need a decent grasp of history and religion to to make sense of it, this is an excellent and thought-provoking book. No less interesting now that we are in the year 2000.
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