Susan Palmer looks at OTS/Solar Temple, MOVE/OnaMove, Oneida Community, Twelve Tribes, Doukhobors/Spirit Wrestlers, and Ecoovie, and discusses their attitudes towards children and violence.
Review of Shushma Malik, The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
The first of the short video-podcasts from the 2021 Annual Conference in June-July this year have been uploaded to the CenSAMM YouTube channel.
Registration and programme information for the Dan David Conference 2021, on the theme of "Innovative Religion and Apocalypticism" has been published...
CenSAMM Academic Director, Alastair Lockhart, presents a video on "What is the Apocalypse?"
QAnon, JFK Jr, and beliefs about second comings
James Crossley's new article on political understandings of the Apocalypse in light of the Covid-19 pandemic
A number of news outlets have reported that a study by Gaya Herrington, Sustainability and Dynamic Systems Analysis Lead in North and South America...
It was by chance that Theodore Schwartz found himself on Manus Island in 1953-54, in what was then the Australia-governed Manus District of the United Nations Trust Territory of Papua and New Guinea, among people engaged in an intense millenarian effort.
Martyrdom and Transformation of Society. Submission deadline: 31 August 2021. Online symposium: 16 September 2021.
The spectre of a crowd of insurrectionists running members...