Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism

Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context, also. Presenting apocalyptic literature as a co...

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Autor principal:	Milan Tomašević
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2016
Materias:	eschatology apocalyptic literature apocalypticism millenarism Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7eafcefcf9d34abdb7fc0a6a67a7b4872021-12-02T01:18:12ZPower of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism10.21301/EAP.V11I1.80353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/7eafcefcf9d34abdb7fc0a6a67a7b4872016-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/634https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context, also. Presenting apocalyptic literature as a compex genre, paper offers a view of multifunctional phenomenon that had been used by different social groups and agents. Paper portrays apocalypses as a part of revolutionary ideoloical texts and paralysing discourse of fear. By refering onto a structural liminality and prophetic method, it deconstructs way of manipulating with an apocalyptic imagination and socio-political acting. By representing main product of eschatology, as mileniarism and apocalypticism, paper offers understanding of revelations as a part of theology, teleology and philosophy of history and humankind. Milan TomaševićUniversity of Belgradearticleeschatologyapocalyptic literatureapocalypticismmillenarismAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2016)
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description	Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context, also. Presenting apocalyptic literature as a compex genre, paper offers a view of multifunctional phenomenon that had been used by different social groups and agents. Paper portrays apocalypses as a part of revolutionary ideoloical texts and paralysing discourse of fear. By refering onto a structural liminality and prophetic method, it deconstructs way of manipulating with an apocalyptic imagination and socio-political acting. By representing main product of eschatology, as mileniarism and apocalypticism, paper offers understanding of revelations as a part of theology, teleology and philosophy of history and humankind.
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title	Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
title_short	Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
title_full	Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
title_fullStr	Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
title_full_unstemmed	Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
title_sort	power of revalations: eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
publisher	University of Belgrade
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Power of revalations: Eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism

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