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The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses, even recycling, is on some level rooted in the fear of irreversible cataclysm. In a landscape shadowed by racial conflict, technological upheaval, AIDS, and nuclear weapons, we reasonably fear the end of history. 2000 looms large in our religious, political, and cultural imagination. But while 2000 brings dread it also raises the prospect of transformation. There is hope to be found in the apocalyptic.
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The author and editor of numerous books, including Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America, Charles B. Strozier is Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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- PublisherNYU Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0814780318
- ISBN 13 9780814780312
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages354
- EditorStrozier Charles B., Flynn Michael
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