The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2
The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2

Author: Christopher Partridge

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0567552713

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The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite different from the those forms of religion that are in decline, but are often defined over against them and articulated and passed on in ways quite different from those of traditional religion. In particular, it is argued that such contemporary Western spirituality is fed by a constantly replenished reservoir of ideas, practices, and methodologies, which is here termed 'occulture'. Moreover, such occultural ideas both feed into and are resourced by popular culture. Indeed, popular occulture is a key feature of the re-enchantment of the West. Demonstrating the significance and ubiquity of these ideas, this book examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use, the Internet and cyberspirituality, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, demonology and the contemporary fascination with the figure of Satan, the heavy metal subculture, popular apocalypticism, and millennial violence.

Expecting Armageddon
Expecting Armageddon

Author: Jon R. Stone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1135210365

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The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, When Prophecy Fails. Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.

The Disappointed
The Disappointed

Author: Ronald L. Numbers

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780870497933

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The first edition (now out of print) grew out of a conference held in Vermont, May-June 1984; the second includes minor changes and one important new document. The subject is the thinking and influence of William Miller whose prediction of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world "about the year 1843" fostered several new religious movements, including Seventh-day Adventists. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

Author: Hamid Naficy

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0822347741

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Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.