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Millennialism and Society Edited by: Brenda E. Brasher 'Millennialism and Society is a publishing project that is as bold as it is admirable. It combines a meticulous scholarly approach with ethical and political awareness. In a world haunted and endangered by apocalyptic visions of every kind, this series will surely contribute to a better sense of what we face and who we are.' Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, City University of New York Millennialism and Society had its genesis in the 1996 - 2002 annual meetings of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. Those meetings brought together an international array of scholars to discuss the texts and traditions of religious revelation or apocalypses concerning the end of the world as we know it, whether in a tumultuous final judgment or a utopian eternal paradise. As apocalyptic texts advance an argument that massive change on earth is possible, even desirable, because it is part of a divine plan, the scholars’ goal was to attain a richer, more nuanced understanding of our most ancient ideas of social change, including their influence on societies today. Millennialism and Society represents a sustained effort on the part of this scholarly network to advance our understanding of what is a frequently unruly element of our cultural heritage.
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