Michael Barkun
Biographic Data
| ID | 112617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Barkun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Barkun |
| SIGNATURE | BARKUN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Environmentalism on the American Extreme Right
American right-wing extremists have rarely explicitly stated environmental policies. However, they have exhibited implicit environmentalism. It has resulted from a fusion of three factors: an intense distaste for cities; a belief in the supremacy of small social and governmental units; and the self-sufficiency known as survivalism. These result in a romantic nostalgia for an agrarian, pre-industrial past when current environmental problems did no…
A Culture of Conspiracy
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack Obama's American citizenship, and how the conspiracy landscape has changed with the rise of the Internet and other new media. What do UFO believers, C…
"President Trump and the "Fringe
The “fringe”—rejected and marginalized ideas and beliefs—has historically been clearly divided from the cultural and political mainstream. However, recent technological developments have weakened the boundary separating them. The Internet and social media have made it possible for fringe ideas to move much more readily into the mainstream. The Trump campaign was accompanied by the massive infusion of fringe motifs including the denigration of eth…
Les théories du complot comme connaissance stigmatisée
La plupart des théories du complot appartiennent au domaine du « savoir stigmatisé » – c’est à dire des savoirs qui n’ont pas été acceptés par les institutions auxquelles nous faisons confiance pour dire le vrai. Il n’est pas rare que ceux qui adhèrent aux théories du complot acceptent également d’autres formes de savoirs stigmatisés, telles les médecines alternatives et les croyances à l’Atlantide ou aux OVNIS. Le rejet des autorités est pour eu…
Social Science Literature
This bibliography is a companion volume to International Law and the Social Sciences . One of the aims of the earlier work by Wesley L. Gould and Michael Barkun was to show how social science concepts could be employed in research in international law. With the support and encouragement of the American Society of international Law, they have now compiled a broad and thorough survey of social science literature of potential usefulness to students …
International Law and the Social Sciences
A bridge is constructed by this volume between the separate professions and disciplines of international lawyers and social scientists. The authors attempt to restate international law, both its jurisprudence and its rules, in social science terms. The authors then explicitly set forth the reciprocal relationships between international law and the findings, perspectives, and literature of the social sciences—showing how the insights and concepts …
The Foundations of Modern Terrorism
Book Review| July 01 2015 The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence. Martin A. Miller. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2013; 306 pages. $89.99 (hardback), $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-107-02530-1. Michael Barkun Michael Barkun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the …
Conspiracy theories as stigmatized knowledge
Most conspiracy theories exist as part of "stigmatized knowledge" - that is, knowledge claims that have not been accepted by those institutions we rely upon for truth validation. Not uncommonly, believers in conspiracy theories also accept other forms of stigmatized knowledge, such as unorthodox forms of healing and beliefs about Atlantis and UFOs. Rejection by authorities is for them a sign that a belief must be true. However, the linkage of con…
Michigan's dramatic far-right parade
While a substantial number of broad-gauged surveys of the extreme right in the United States have appeared in recent years, particularly since the Oklahoma City bombing, we have only just begun to
Millennialism and Violence
As the world approaches the year 2000, many societies are experiencing an unprecedented growth in millenarian movements that anticipate an imminent and total transformation of the world. Many of these movements have been associated with violence, either as a means for producing change or as a response to confrontations with state authority. This book draws together research on this topic from political science, psychology, sociology and history i…
Millennialism on the Radical Right in America
Chasing Phantoms
Although a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism concluded that biological or nuclear weapons were very likely to be unleashed in the years soon after 2001, what Americans actually have experienced are relatively low-tech threats. Yet even under a new administration, extraordinary domestic and international policies enacted by the U.S. government in the wak…
Purifying the Law
Purifying the Law:The Legal World of "Christian Patriots" Michael Barkun In February 2003, a defendant named Richard John Adams stood before a county circuit judge in Gainesville, Missouri, and requested that Jesus Christ be his attorney—a proposal the judge found impractical, since legal representation in his court is restricted to those licensed in Missouri.1 Adams's unwillingness to use a licensed attorney stemmed from his belief that "the Mis…
Appropriated Martyrs
After the disastrous end of the Waco standoff in 1993, the Branch Davidian dead were idealized as martyrs by many on the radical right, despite the incompatibility between Davidian doctrine and right-wing ideology. This appropriation suggests the importance of martyrologists in identifying martyrs, as well as the increasing malleability of the concept of martyrdom. For martyrdom, as it appears in the right-wing treatment of the Waco affair, depar…
Religion and Secrecy After September 11
Security concerns since September 11, 2001 have raised new issues concerning relations between religious communities and government. Many of these involve the perception that religions (especially, at the moment, Islam) may engage in secret, illicit activities beyond the view of others, including the state. The new security environment requires an examination of the related concepts of secrecy and privacy as they apply to religion, as well as the…
A Culture of ConspiracyApocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Religious violence and the myth of fundamentalism
Project Megiddo, the FBI and the Academic Community
(2002). Project Megiddo, the FBI and the Academic Community. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 95-108
Religion and Conflict from Independence to the Civil War
It is impossible to examine the place of conflict involving religion in America without first knowing how Americans perceive the role of conflict in their society. In fact, until recently most views of American history selectively read conflict out of the national story, with one signal exception. That exception was, of course, race, whose salience was such that it could hardly be ignored. From slavery to the Civil War, from Reconstruction throug…
Violence in the name of democracy
Over the last 30 years, figures on the American radical right have sought to justify the use of violence against the national government. This can be seen in three key texts: the charter of the United States Christian Posse Association (1972), the Nehemiah Township Charter and Common Law Contract (1982), and Louis Beam's essay, ‘Revolutionary Majorities’ (1984). All three are characterized by antipathy toward the state, a desire to demonstrate th…
The End of the World As We Know It
Religion, militias and Oklahoma city
Religion and the Racist Right
According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and the Racist Right (1994), Barkun provided an exploration of the ideological and organizational development of the Christian Identity movement. In this revised edition, he traces the role of Christian Identity figures in the dramatic events of th…
Religion and the Racist Right
Millennial Fever and the End of the World
Journal Article Millennial Vever and the End of the World: A Study of Millerite Adventism. By George R. Knight. Boise: Pacific Press and The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism. By Grant Underwood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press Get access Michael Barkun Michael Barkun Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, …
Conspiracy theories as stigmatized knowledge
Most conspiracy theories exist as part of "stigmatized knowledge" - that is, knowledge claims that have not been accepted by those institutions we rely upon for truth validation. Not uncommonly, believers in conspiracy theories also accept other forms of stigmatized knowledge, such as unorthodox forms of healing and beliefs about Atlantis and UFOs. Rejection by authorities is for them a sign that a belief must be true. However, the linkage of con…
"President Trump and the "Fringe
The “fringe”—rejected and marginalized ideas and beliefs—has historically been clearly divided from the cultural and political mainstream. However, recent technological developments have weakened the boundary separating them. The Internet and social media have made it possible for fringe ideas to move much more readily into the mainstream. The Trump campaign was accompanied by the massive infusion of fringe motifs including the denigration of eth…
Political Theory and International Relations
The End of the World As We Know It
Millenarian aspects of 'white supremacist' movements
Since the mid‐1980s, press accounts have widely reported the activities of a new variety of radical right‐wing groups often characterized as 'white supremacist'. Among groups to which the label has been attached are Aryan Nations, The Order, Posse Comitatus, and The Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord. These groups share a belief system made up of five elements: (1) 'Identity' theology, which asserts that whites of Western European extraction are…
Introduction
Law and Social Revolution
In the 1920s and early 1930s the Marxist legal theorist, Eugene Pashukanis, advanced the thesis that the achievement of communism would produce not only the dissolution of the state but of the legal system as well. Briefly, he argued that law was a direct result of economic exchange, that economic exchange was an integral part of bourgeois society, that all law was hence bourgeois law, and, finally, that the demise of bourgeois society would carr…
Religion, militias and Oklahoma city
Disaster and sexuality
The hypothesis presented in this article is that fear of disaster and fear of certain modes of sexuality are intimately linked. Throughout most of human history, disaster was, in essence, the result of the actions of God or nature; either gratuitous or as a punishment for a sinning mankind. Sodom and Gommorah was the classic biblical example of this interrelationship. With the coming of the French and the Industrial Revolutions, man-caused disast…
Law Without Sanctions
Disaster and the Millennium
Conflict resolution through implicit mediation
Appropriated Martyrs
After the disastrous end of the Waco standoff in 1993, the Branch Davidian dead were idealized as martyrs by many on the radical right, despite the incompatibility between Davidian doctrine and right-wing ideology. This appropriation suggests the importance of martyrologists in identifying martyrs, as well as the increasing malleability of the concept of martyrdom. For martyrdom, as it appears in the right-wing treatment of the Waco affair, depar…
Religion and Secrecy After September 11
Security concerns since September 11, 2001 have raised new issues concerning relations between religious communities and government. Many of these involve the perception that religions (especially, at the moment, Islam) may engage in secret, illicit activities beyond the view of others, including the state. The new security environment requires an examination of the related concepts of secrecy and privacy as they apply to religion, as well as the…
Millenarian groups and law enforcement agencies
The Awakening-Cycle Controversy
Participants in a 1983 symposium in Sociological Analysis debated the existence of periodic “awakenings” in American society. The precise issues in dispute were often blurred by a tendency to equate awakenings with peaks in revival activity, at best an imperfect measure. The awakening-cycle construct may be further clarified by comparing it with related cyclical models: Whitney Cross's linkage of revivals and economic downturns; E.P. Thompson's “…
Millenarianism in the modern world
Project Megiddo, the FBI and the Academic Community
(2002). Project Megiddo, the FBI and the Academic Community. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 95-108
The politics of righteousness
James A. Aho, The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1991. $24.95 Pp.334, illus, 1 map, tables, biblio, indexes. ISBN 0–295–96997–0
Coxey's Army' as a millennial movement
‘Coxey's Army’ was the popular name for a march of unemployed workers which left Massillon, Ohio, on Easter Sunday 1894, and arrived in Washington, D.C., on May Day. It was the first nationally reported protest march on Washington and as an example of protest against economic conditions is usually classified as a form of Populism. Careful analysis, however, reveals that it possessed important religious elements, specifically an idiosyncratic mill…
Disaster and the Millennium
Law and the Social System
Anthropology and Policy Studies
Conflict resolution through implicit mediation
Law Without Sanctions
Law without Sanctions
Law Without Sanctions
International Law as a Subprocess of International Society
Law and Social Revolution
In the 1920s and early 1930s the Marxist legal theorist, Eugene Pashukanis, advanced the thesis that the achievement of communism would produce not only the dissolution of the state but of the legal system as well. Briefly, he argued that law was a direct result of economic exchange, that economic exchange was an integral part of bourgeois society, that all law was hence bourgeois law, and, finally, that the demise of bourgeois society would carr…
International Law and the Social Sciences
A bridge is constructed by this volume between the separate professions and disciplines of international lawyers and social scientists. The authors attempt to restate international law, both its jurisprudence and its rules, in social science terms. The authors then explicitly set forth the reciprocal relationships between international law and the findings, perspectives, and literature of the social sciences-showing how the insights and concepts …
International Norms as Facts and Ideals
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Movements of Total Transformation
Law and the Social System
Anthropology and Policy Studies
Millenarianism in the modern world
Disaster and the Millennium
Disaster and the Millennium
Disaster and the Millennium
Early Modern Western Religious Studies
EARLY MODERN WESTERN RELIGIOUS STUDIES Get access Respectable Folly, Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England. By CLARKE GARRETTBaltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. x+237 pages $10.00. L C. No 74-24378. MICHAEL BARKUN MICHAEL BARKUN Department of Political Science, Syracuse University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, I…
Political Theory and International Relations
Disaster and sexuality
The hypothesis presented in this article is that fear of disaster and fear of certain modes of sexuality are intimately linked. Throughout most of human history, disaster was, in essence, the result of the actions of God or nature; either gratuitous or as a punishment for a sinning mankind. Sodom and Gommorah was the classic biblical example of this interrelationship. With the coming of the French and the Industrial Revolutions, man-caused disast…
The Awakening-Cycle Controversy
Participants in a 1983 symposium in Sociological Analysis debated the existence of periodic “awakenings” in American society. The precise issues in dispute were often blurred by a tendency to equate awakenings with peaks in revival activity, at best an imperfect measure. The awakening-cycle construct may be further clarified by comparing it with related cyclical models: Whitney Cross's linkage of revivals and economic downturns; E.P. Thompson's “…
Crucible of the Millennium
Promised Lands
Crucible of the Millennium
Journal Article Crucible of the Millennium: The Burned-over District of New York in the 1840s. By Michael Barkun. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986. xiii + 194 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Robert David Thomas Robert David Thomas Chagrin Falls, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Page 172, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908549 …
Crucible of the Millennium
Coxey's Army' as a millennial movement
‘Coxey's Army’ was the popular name for a march of unemployed workers which left Massillon, Ohio, on Easter Sunday 1894, and arrived in Washington, D.C., on May Day. It was the first nationally reported protest march on Washington and as an example of protest against economic conditions is usually classified as a form of Populism. Careful analysis, however, reveals that it possessed important religious elements, specifically an idiosyncratic mill…
Disaster and the Millennium
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