Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements

Patterns of contemporary apocalypticism / T. Robbins, S.J. Palmer

Section one: theories of apocalypticism. Constructing apocalypticism: social and cultrual elements of radical organization / D.G. Bromley

Millennialism with and without the mayhem / C. Wessinger

The apocalypse of modernity / J.A. Aho

Fifteen years of failed prophecy: coping with cognitive dissonance in a Baha'i sect / R.W. Baclch, J. Domitrovich, B.L. Mahnke, V. Morrison

Section two: secularizing the millennium. Secularizing the millennium: survivalists, militias, and the new world order / P. Lamy

Environmental apocalypse: the millennial ideology of "Earth First!" / M.F. Lee.

Technological millenarianism in the United States / J.M. Bozeman

Woman as world savior: the feminization of the millennium in new riligious movements / S.J. Palmer

Section three: apocalypticism and the churches. The vengeful virgin: case studies in contemporary American Catholic apocalypticism / M.W. Cueno

Christian reconstructionism and the angry rhetoric of neo-postmillennialism / A. Shupe

The persistence of apocalypticism within a denominationalizaing sect: the apocalyptic fringe groups of Seventh-Day Adventism / R. Lawson

Latter Day revisited: contemporary Mormon millenarianism / M. Introvigne.

Section four: violence and confrontation. Millenarians and violence: the case of the Christian identity movement / M. Barkun

Religious totalism, exemplary dualism, and the Waco tragedy / D. Anthony, T. Robbins

The mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple / J.R. Hall, P. Schuyler

Aum Shinrikyo as an apocalyptic movement / M.R. Mullins.