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English
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Watchers of the Second Coming : The Millenarian Tradition in America
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Mississippi Valley Historical Review
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1952
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39
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441-58
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'Traces millenarian thought in American history to its Judeo-Christian origins and states that, as the main churches abandoned or neglected belief in the Second Coming, new sects came into being, basing their appeal on the conviction that the millennium is at hand...Millenarianism has stressed two opposing pictures of the world: a pessimistic one that sees the world as coming to an end soon and human efforts to reform as useless, and a more optimistic perspective that envisages the establishment of a heaven on earth in the near future.'