Forthcoming from Syracuse University Press in early 2000.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Catherine Wessinger, editor

Catherine Wessinger

"The Interacting Dynamics of Millennial Beliefs, Persecution,

and Violence"

Grant Underwood

"Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: The Mormons"

Michelene E. Pesantubbee

"From Vision to Violence: The Wounded Knee Massacre"

Eugene V. Gallagher

"‘Theology is Life and Death’:David Koresh on Violence, Persecution,

and the Millennium"

Richard C. Salter

"Shooting Dreads on Sight: Violence, Persecution, Millennialism, and

Dominica's Dread Act"

Rebecca Moore

"‘American as Cherry Pie:’" Peoples Temple and Violence in America"

Massimo Introvigne

"The Magic of Death: The Suicides of the Solar Temple"

Ian Reader

"Imagined Persecution: Aum Shinrikyô, Millennialism, and the

Legitimation of Violence"

Christine Steyn

"Millenarian Tragedies in South Africa: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing

Movement and the Bulhoek Massacre"

Thomas Robbins

"Apocalypse, Persecution, and Self-Immolation: Mass Suicides among the

Old Believers in Late Seventeenth-Century Russia"

Scott Lowe

"Western Millennial Ideology Goes East: The Taiping Revolution and

Mao's Great Leap Forward"

Robert Ellwood

"Nazism as a Millennialist Movement"

Jacqueline Stone

"Japanese Lotus Millennialism: From Militant Nationalism to

Contemporary Peace Movements"

Richard C. Salter

"Time, Authority, and Ethics in the Khmer Rouge: Elements of the

Millenial Vision in Year Zero"

Jeffrey Kaplan

"Real Paranoids Have Real Enemies: The Genesis of the ZOG Discourse in

the American National Socialist Subculture"

Jean E. Rosenfeld

"The Justus Freemen Standoff: the Importance of the Analysis of

Religion in Avoiding Violent Outcomes"

Jean E. Rosenfeld

"A Brief History of Millennialism and Suggestions for a New Paradigm

for Use in Critical Incidents: A Presentation to the Los Angeles Police

Department"

Michael Barkun

"Millennial Violence in Contemporary America"