Draft:Apocalypse Observed
| Author |
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|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Religious violence |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | December 2000 |
| Pages | 228 |
| ISBN | 0-415-19276-5 |
| OCLC | 42060958 |
| 306.6 | |
| LC Class | BL65.V55 H33 2000 |
Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan is a book about religious violence, written by John R. Hall with Philip D. Schuyler and Sylvaine Trinh. It was published in 2000 by Routledge. The book analyzes five new religious movements known for high profile acts of violence: the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, and Heaven's Gate.
The book received
Background
[edit]John R. Hall was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis.[1]
Contents
[edit]The book analyzes five new religious movements known for high profile acts of violence: the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, and Heaven's Gate. The chapter on Aum Shinrikyo was written by Hall alongside Sylvaine Trinh, while the chapter on the Order of the Solar Temple was written with Philip D. Schuyler.
The chapter discussing Jonestown is based off a prior work of Hall's, Gone From the Promised Land.[2][3]
The book asserts that there are several "cultural logics" that drive religious violence, with one being an "apocalypse or religious conflict" [4]
Publication
[edit]Apocalypse Observed was published in December 2000 by Routledge.[1][5]
The chapter on the Order of the Solar Temple, "The Mystical Apocalypse of the Solar Temple", was later reprinted in a 2006 book on the organization, The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death, edited by James R. Lewis.[6]
Reception
[edit]Apocalypse Observed received
[4][7][8][9][10][11][12][2][3]
Thomas Robbins compared the book to How the Millennium Comes Violently (also about millennialist religious violence)[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Apocalypse observed: religious movements and violence in North America, Europe, and Japan". Reference and Research Book News. 16 (1). February 2001. ISSN 0887-3763.
- ^ a b c Robbins, Thomas (2000). "Review of Apocolypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan". Review of Religious Research. 42 (1): 117–119. doi:10.2307/3512151. ISSN 0034-673X. JSTOR 3512151.
- ^ a b Shupe, Anson (2001). "Review of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 576: 147–148. ISSN 0002-7162. JSTOR 1049938.
- ^ a b Hamilton, Malcolm (May 1, 2002). "Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 17 (2): 255–257. doi:10.1080/13537900220125217. ISSN 1353-7903.
- ^ Nelson, Marcia Z. (May 17, 1999). "Focusing on religion". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 246, no. 20. pp. 45–48. ISSN 0000-0019.
- ^ Lewis, James R., ed. (2006). The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death. Controversial New Religions. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7546-5285-4.
- ^ Kisala, Robert J. (2001). "Review of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 28 (1/2): 195–198. ISSN 0304-1042. JSTOR 30233694.
- ^ Kilde, Jeanne Halgren (2001). "Review of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan". Journal of American Studies. 35 (3): 546–547. ISSN 0021-8758. JSTOR 27557054.
- ^ Kippenberg, Hans G. (2002). "Review of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan". The Journal of Religion. 82 (1): 152–153. ISSN 0022-4189. JSTOR 1205923.
- ^ Wright, Stuart A. (2001). "Review of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 40 (3): 548–549. ISSN 0021-8294. JSTOR 1388107.
- ^ Luca, Nathalie (2004). "Un regard sur les études portant sur les "nouveaux mouvements religieux"" [A look at studies on "new religious movements"]. Archives de sciences sociales des religions (in French). 49 (128): 39–49. ISSN 0335-5985. JSTOR 30125964.
- ^ Lutzker, Adam; Rosenthal, Judy (2001). "The Unheimlich Man-Oeuvre". American Ethnologist. 28 (4): 909–923. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 3094940.