Skip to main content
  • free

    Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.

    FREE delivery on orders over £10

  • UK

    Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK

    with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies

  • Church

    Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used

    by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools

  • Excellent 4.8 out of 5

    Trustpilot

Eden.co.uk

The Shadows and Lights of Waco

Millennialism Today [Paperback]

by James D. Faubion

    • Author

      James D. Faubion

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

    • Published

      December 2001

      Read full description

      Today's Price

      £26.89

      Save 40%

      Free delivery icon

      Free UK Delivery

      Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

      Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

      • Paypal
      • Google Pay
      • Apple Pay
      • Visa
      • Mastercard
      • Amex

      The Shadows and Lights of Waco

      Today's Price £26.89

      You Might Also Like...

      Product Description

      When James Faubion visited the site of the Branch Davidian compound after its conflagration, what he found surprised him. Though the popular imagination had relegated the site's millennialist denizens to the radical fringe, Faubion found not psychopathology but a sturdy and comprehensive system for understanding the world. He also found, in the person of Amo Paul Bishop Roden, a fascinating spokeswoman for that system. Based on more than five years of fieldwork, including extensive life-history interviews with Roden, Faubion interprets millennialism as a "master-pedagogy." He reveals it as simultaneously a poetics, a rhetoric, a physics, an approach to history, a course of training, a gnosis, and an ethics.Millennialism resists the categories that both academic and popular analysts use to discuss religion by melding the sacred and secular, the spiritual and political, and the transcendental and commonsensical. In this respect, and in others, millennialism is a premodern pedagogy that has grown resolutely counter-modern. Yet, mainstream culture sees in it not a critique of modernity but dangerous lunacy.This disjunction prompts Faubion to investigate how the mainstream came to confine religion to an inner and other-worldly faith - an inquiry that allows him to account for the irrationalization of millennialism. Against this historical background, we can discern the genealogy of Adventist millennialism and make sense of contemporary religious events, including the actions of a small group in the central Texas prairie.

      Specification

      • Author

        James D. Faubion

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

      • Published

        December 2001

      • Weight

        373g

      • Page Count

        264

      • Dimensions

        154 x 233 x 17 mm

      • ISBN

        9780691089980

      • ISBN-10

        0691089981

      • Eden Code

        1154483

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: James D. Faubion

      • ISBN: 9780691089980

      • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

      • Release Date: December 2001

      • Weight: 373g

      • Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 17 mm

      • Eden Code: 1154483

      Product Q+A

      Ask a Question

      Recently Viewed