The second coming : popular millenarianism, 1780-1850 / / J.F.C. Harrison
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| Autore: |
Harrison J. F. C (John Fletcher Clews)
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| Titolo: |
The second coming : popular millenarianism, 1780-1850 / / J.F.C. Harrison
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 236.0942 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Church history 18th century |
| Great Britain Church history 19th century | |
| United States Church history 18th century | |
| United States Church history 19th century | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The second coming |
| ISBN: | 1-136-29876-2 |
| 0-203-11639-9 | |
| 1-136-29877-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786719403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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