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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786719403321

Autore

Harrison J. F. C (John Fletcher Clews)

Titolo

The second coming : popular millenarianism, 1780-1850 / / J.F.C. Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-29876-2

0-203-11639-9

1-136-29877-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Routledge Revivals

Disciplina

236.0942

Soggetti

Millennialism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Millennialism - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Church history 18th century

Great Britain Church history 19th century

United States Church history 18th century

United States Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1979 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE MILLENARIAN TRADITION; 1 THE HOPE OF THE MILLENNIUM; 2 PROPHETS AND PROPHESYINGS; 3 SIGNS AND WONDERS; PART II WORLD'S DOOM; 4 NEPHEW OF THE ALMIGHTY; 5 THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN; (i) THE PROPHETESS; (ii) TRUE BELIEVERS; 6 FALSE PROPHETS; PART III THE MILLENNIAL DAWN; 7 PECULIAR PEOPLES; 8 THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY; NOTES AND REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history - a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Millenarianism is a conceptual



tool with which to explore some aspects of popular thought and culture. It is also seen as an ideology of social change and as a continuing tradition, traced from the end of the seventeenth century to the 1790s, and is shown to be emb