Religion and Politics: Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases (Paperback)

Catherine Wessinger
Syracuse University Press
 9780815605997
0-8156-0599-4

In this cross-cultural volume Catherine Wessinger reveals three patterns relating to millennial groups involved in violence that are not mutually exclusive: assaulted millennial groups that are attacked.

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by outsiders who fear and misunderstand the religion, fragile millennial groups that initiate violence to preserve the religious goal, and revolutionary millennial groups possessing an ideology that sanctions violence.