MILLENNIALISM STUDIES PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Editor, Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. 2000. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate. 2000. New York: Seven Bridges Press.

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

Bonnie Haldeman as told to Catherine Wessinger, Memoirs of David Koresh’s Mother

Sheila Martin as told to Catherine Wessinger, When They Were Mine: Memoirs of a Branch Davidian Wife and Mother

Clive Doyle as told to Catherine Wessinger, A Servant of the Lord: Memoirs of a Branch Davidian Survivor

Editor, Oxford Handbook of Millennialism

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Millennialism With and Without the Mayhem.” In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem, ed. by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. New York: Routledge, 1997, 47-59.

“Foreword” to Hearing the Voices of Jonestown: Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy, by Mary McCormick Maaga. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998, ix-xii.

“The Interacting Dynamics of Millennial Beliefs, Persecution, and Violence.” Introduction to Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000, 43-61.

“New Religious Movements and Conflicts with Law Enforcement.” In New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America, ed. Derek H. Davis and Barry Hankins. Waco: J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Baylor University Press, 2002, 115-39.

“Understanding Contemporary Millennial Movements, Peaceful and Violent.” In Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present, ed. Leonard J. Greenspoon and Ronald A. Simkins. Vol. 12. Studies in Jewish Civilization. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2002.

“Mount Carmel’s Lessons on Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence.” In Waco: Ten Years After: 2003 Fleming Lectures in Religion, ed. David Tabb Stewart. Georgetown, Tex.: Southwestern University, 2003, 1-20. This volume is also available at <http://www.southwestern.edu/academic/bwp/>.

“The Branch Davidians and Religion Reporting: A Ten-Year Retrospective.” In Contemporary Millennialism: Visions of the End in Historical Perspective, ed. Kenneth G. C. Newport and Crawford Gribben. Waco: Baylor University Press, forthcoming.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Annie Besant’s Millennial Movement: Its History, Impact, and Implications Concerning Authority,” with an “Epilogue on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians,” Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture 2, no. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 1993): 55-70.

Review Essay: “Understanding the Branch Davidian Tragedy,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 1, no. 1 (October 1997): 122-38.

“How the Millennium Comes Violently,” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 36, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 277-88.

“Religious Studies Scholars, FBI Agents, and the Montana Freemen,” Nova Religion: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 3, no. 1 (October 1999): 36-44.

“Teaching about Millennialism, Peace, and Violence,” Spotlight on Teaching (American Academy of Religion) 18, no. 4 (October 2003): viii-xii.

“Autobiographies of Three Surviving Branch Davidians: An Initial Report,” Fieldwork in Religion, forthcoming.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Articles in the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, ed. Richard Landes. Routledge, 2000, on “castastropic millennialism” (1,115 words), “progressive millennialism” (490 words), “assaulted millennial groups” (261 words), “fragile millennial groups” (517 words), “revolutionary millennial movements” (278 words), “nativist millennial movements” (656 words), and “persecution” (3,938 words).

“Millennialism” (1,641 words) for The Encyclopedia of War.

“New Religious Movements and Millennialism,” Encyclopedia of Religion, gen. ed. Lindsay Jones, 2d ed. (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005), 10: 6544-51. (6,552 words)