The End(s) of Time(s)

Apocalypticism, Messianism, and Utopianism Through the Ages
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46102-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Prognostication in History

In times of crises, be it about climate change, the pandemic corona virus, or democratic struggles, there is an unwaning interest worldwide in the end of times and related themes such as apocalypticism, messianism, and utopianism. This concerns scholarship and society alike, and is by no means limited to the religious field.

The present volume collates essays from specialists in the study of apocalyptic and eschatological subjects. With its interdisciplinary approach, it is designed to overcome the existing Euro-centrism and incorporate a broader perspective to the topic of end time expectations in the Christian Middle Ages as well as in East Asia and Africa.

Contributors include: Gaelle Bosseman, Wolfram Brandes, Matthias Gebauer, Jürgen Gebhardt, Vincent Goossaert, Klaus Herbers, Matthias Kaup, Bernardo Bertholin Kerr, Thomas Krümpel, Richard Landes, Zhao Lu, Rolf Scheuermann, and Julia Eva Wannenmacher.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehner, Hans-Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

The End(s) of Time(s): An Introduction

Hans-Christian Lehner

Part 1

1 Christian Perspectives on History, Eschatology, and Transcendence in the Latin Christian Middle Ages

Klaus Herbers

2 Byzantine Predictions of the End of the World in 500, 1000, and 1492 AD

Wolfram Brandes

3 The Great Peace and the Ends of Time in Early Imperial China

Zhao Lu

4 Tibetan Buddhist Dystopian Narratives and their Pedagogical Dimensions

Rolf Scheuermann

5 Ragnarök: Prophecies and Notions of the End Time in Old Norse Religion

Thomas Krümpel

6 An Overview of Bahá’í Eschatology, in a Tapestry of Five Strands

Bernardo Bertholin Kerr

Part 2

7 Beatus of Liebana and the Spiritualized Understanding of Apocalypse in Medieval Iberia

Gaelle Bosseman

8 Muhammad, Mahdi, Antichrist: Muslims in Joachim of Fiore’s Apocalyptic Eschatology

Julia Eva Wannenmacher

9 The Infernal Trinity as Passivized Pacemaker of Salvation History: Satan’s Particular Eschatological Activity in Anonymus Bambergensis’ Tracts De semine scripturarum and De principe mundi

Matthias Kaup

Part 3

10 Competing Eschatological Scenarios during the Taiping War, 1851–1864

Vincent Goossaert

11 The Messianic Quest for an Earthly Paradise in the Modern Era of Revolution

Jürgen Gebhardt

12 Indigenous Millennialism: Murabitun Sufism in the Black African townships of South Africa

Matthias Gebauer

13 Apocalyptic Millennialism: The Most Powerful, Volatile, Imaginary Force in Human History

Richard Landes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Hans-Christian Lehner (1982) is research fellow of Medieval History at the ICRH in Erlangen. His monograph Prophetie zwischen Eschatologie und Politik (2015) was focusing on prognostics as outlined in medieval historiography. He edited, translated, and annotated the 12th century Visio Tnugdali (with Maximilian Nix, 2018). With Matthias Heiduk and Klaus Herbers he edited the handbook Prognostication in the Middle Ages (2 vols. 2021).