Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections ; No. 2
Contents
Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Time and Creation; The Jubilee as a Social Welfare Institution; The Jubilee at the End of Time; The Biblical Heritage of the Modern Milllennium; FURTHER READING; The Problem; Proposed Solutions; Exegetical Assumptions; The Angelic Restrainer; Islam and Globalization; Muslims in Britain and the New Millennium; Conclusion; Introduction; The East Asian Lunar Calendar; The Solar Calendar and Duodenary Enumeration; Buddhist Cosmology and Temporal Reckoning; A Buddhist Calendar; An Example of an East Asian Hermeneutic of Cycles; Approaching a New Millennium
Icons of the Apocalyptic AgePast and Future: Ceremony and Theology; The Kingdom of God Today: Building Jerusalem?; Introduction; Biblical Data; Pentecostal and Historical Contexts; Historical Perspectives on Millennial Beliefs; Sociological Reflections on Millennial Beliefs; Empirical Exploration of Theological and Sociological Theory; 2. Method; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Y2K: The State of the Culture; The Sabbatical Millennium: Earliest Apocalyptic Time-Bombs Set for Millennium's End; The Context and the Challenge; 'The Religious Map' of Europe
The Conservative BiasSecularization; Modern Changes; The Church, Culture and Change; Contemporary Belief; Public Religion; The Orthodox Churches; Conclusion: Toward the Future; Introduction; The Concept of'Spirituality'; Baby Boomers; Baby Busters; Millennial Generation; BIBLIOGRAPHY; The Faith Zone; Tensions on Time; A Theology of Time; Conclusion
Summary
"This collection of essays examines responses to the Millennium and whether or not the year 2000 could be claimed as a specifically Christian time. It also considers how other religions reacted to the moment and what millennial celebrations reveal about religion in a secular age."--Bloomsbury Publishing
