Catherine Wessinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 267815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Wessinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Wessinger |
| SIGNATURE | WESSINGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Oklahoma City Bombing and April 19th
Collective Martyrdom and Religious Suicide
The Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate, two religious groups marked by apocalyptic worldviews, are compared to elucidate two types of trajectories of apocalyptic groups involved in violence. The Branch Davidians expected to be martyred based on David Koresh’s interpretations of the Bible’s prophecies about the events of the Last Days. Therefore, in 1993 they regarded assaults against their community by federal agents as verifying Koresh’s predict…
Millennialism
Millennialism—belief in an imminent transition to a collective salvation either on earth or in heaven or both, and accomplished by a divine or superhuman agent or by humans working according to a divine or superhuman plan—manifests in distinctive patterns that are not mutually exclusive and that may be found in various traditions, including cultures that have not been influenced by Christianity and the Christian Bible. Millennial expressions are …
Portrait
I wish I had been present at the 1993 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) when Professor Eileen Barker delivered her subversive presidential address: "The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must Be Joking!" I imagine that not all audience members were delighted. The address lives up to its billing, driving a cart and horses through pervasive positivistic assumptions in the study of religion and ushering in a v…
Ellen Harmon White
Journal Article Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet Get access Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald L. Numbers. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi, 365 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1267–1268, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav159 Published: 01 March 2015
The Fundamentalist Mindset
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History. Edited by Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman, and James W. Jones, with Katharine A. Boyd. Foreword by Martin E. Marty. Oxford University Press, 2010. xxi + 274 pages. $99.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Loyo…
Millennialism in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This article explains millennialism as a radical break from status-quoism and an aspiration to experience a total overhaul at the level of reflexive life planning. Changes and mobility, the central factors of millennialism, are expressed as “collective salvation” and envision, both as catastrophic and progressive changes. Despite its mention across the religious spectrum, the phenomenon allots a relatively protracted role to monotheism. Often rel…
Millennial Visions and Conflict with Society
This article deals with issue of conflicts emanating from socially incompatible millennialist values. Millennialist strains across the spectrum assume two common factors—the end of the world as it is hitherto and the ushering of a transformed order and group mobilization in anticipation or in furtherance of anticipated events. Social mobilization generates a two-fold responsibility for the millennialists—first, they should deliver on promises and…
The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
'The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism' offers readers an in-depth look at both the theoretical underpinnings of the study of millennialism and its many manifestations across history and cultures.
Deaths in the Fire at the Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel
Kenneth G. C. Newport's book, The Branch Davidians of Waco (2006) has placed responsibility for the 19 April 1993 fire at Mount Carmel Center, outside Waco, Texas, primarily on the Branch Davidians, arguing that they were motivated to die as a result of their apocalyptic theology of martyrdom. Newport writes that after the siege was initiated by the 28 February assault by agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Branch Davidi…
In Memoriam
Research Article| May 01 2009 In Memoriam: Bonnie Sue Haldeman Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2009) 12 (4): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2009.12.4.136a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
The Lee Hancock Collection
The Lee Hancock Collection of materials on the Branch Davidian case, located at the Loyola University New Orleans archive, contains an impressive set of internal memos, interview reports, and expert reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Texas Rangers, in addition to numerous government reports and documents relating to the criminal and civil trials. It also contains an array of new…
Autobiographies of Three Surviving Branch Davidians
This article provides an initial report on oral histories being collected from three surviving Branch Davidians: Bonnie Haldeman, the mother of David Koresh, Clive Doyle, and Sheila Martin. Their accounts are being made into autobiographies. Interviews with a fourth survivor, Catherine Matteson, are being prepared for deposit in an archive and inform the material gathered from Bonnie Haldeman, Clive Doyle, and Sheila Martin. Oral histories provid…
Falun Gong Symposium Introduction and Glossary
This essay introduces eight articles in a Nova Religio symposium on Falun Gong, a new religious movement that is being suppressed in the People's Republic of China. A glossary of Chinese terms that relate to Falun Gong is provided
Letter from the Co-General Editors
Letter| October 01 2002 Letter from the Co-General Editors Catherine Wessinger, Catherine Wessinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca Moore Rebecca Moore Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2002) 6 (1): 6. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2002.6.1.6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence
Journal Article Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases, by Catherine Wessinger (ed.), Syracuse University Press, 2000, 403 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper) Get access Susan Palmer Susan Palmer Dawson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 412–413, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712364 Published: 01 October 2001
Like Bread on the Seder Plate
Book Review| April 01 2000 Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition By Rebecca Alpert. Columbia University Press, 1997. 214 pages. $24.50 cloth. Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Loyola University, New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2000) 3 (2): 396–397.…
Betrayal of the Spirit
Book Review| April 01 1999 Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement. By Nori J. Muster. Foreword by Larry D. Shinn. University of Illinois Press, 1997. 213 pages. $24.95 cloth. Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Loyola University, New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova …
Religious Studies Scholars, FBI Agents, and the Montana Freemen Standoff
Meeting Report| October 01 1999 Religious Studies Scholars, FBI Agents, and the Montana Freemen Standoff Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 3 (1): 36–44. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.36 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissio…
Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership
Journal Article Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream, by Catherine Wessinger, (ed.). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996, 434 pp. $24.95 Get access Adair T. Lummis Adair T. Lummis Hartford Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 189–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712084 Published: 01 July …
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America
The Davidian Massacre
From the Ashes
Investigation into the Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies toward the Branch Davidians
Armageddon in Waco
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Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions
Marginal religions in the United States have been supportive of women taking leadership roles at least since the nineteenth century. In Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions, historians, folklorists, and theologians explore what factors within these groups support women's religious leadership. The religions examined are Shakerism, Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, Christian Science, the Theosophical movement, New Thought, Unity, Hindu, and Buddhis…
Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions
Journal Article Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions: Explorations outside the Mainstream. Ed. by Catherine Wessinger. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. viii, 246 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN0-252-02025-1. Paper, $14.95, ISBN0-252-06332-5.) Get access Lois A. Boyd Lois A. Boyd Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, J…
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America
The Davidian Massacre
From the Ashes
Investigation into the Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies toward the Branch Davidians
Armageddon in Waco
The Ashes of Waco
Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership
Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership documents the movement of women into positions of leadership and ministry in mainline American Judaism and Christianity and evaluates how this trend will reshape traditional religion in the United States. Contributors compile data formerly found only in diverse scholarly and denominational publications to offer an enlightening interdisciplinary comparison of women's struggles for a more central role i…
Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership
Journal Article Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream, by Catherine Wessinger, (ed.). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996, 434 pp. $24.95 Get access Adair T. Lummis Adair T. Lummis Hartford Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 189–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712084 Published: 01 July …
Betrayal of the Spirit
Book Review| April 01 1999 Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement. By Nori J. Muster. Foreword by Larry D. Shinn. University of Illinois Press, 1997. 213 pages. $24.95 cloth. Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Loyola University, New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova …
Religious Studies Scholars, FBI Agents, and the Montana Freemen Standoff
Meeting Report| October 01 1999 Religious Studies Scholars, FBI Agents, and the Montana Freemen Standoff Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 3 (1): 36–44. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.36 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissio…
Like Bread on the Seder Plate
Book Review| April 01 2000 Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition By Rebecca Alpert. Columbia University Press, 1997. 214 pages. $24.50 cloth. Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Loyola University, New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2000) 3 (2): 396–397.…
Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence
Journal Article Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases, by Catherine Wessinger (ed.), Syracuse University Press, 2000, 403 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper) Get access Susan Palmer Susan Palmer Dawson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 412–413, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712364 Published: 01 October 2001
Letter from the Co-General Editors
Letter| October 01 2002 Letter from the Co-General Editors Catherine Wessinger, Catherine Wessinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca Moore Rebecca Moore Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2002) 6 (1): 6. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2002.6.1.6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Falun Gong Symposium Introduction and Glossary
This essay introduces eight articles in a Nova Religio symposium on Falun Gong, a new religious movement that is being suppressed in the People's Republic of China. A glossary of Chinese terms that relate to Falun Gong is provided
Autobiographies of Three Surviving Branch Davidians
This article provides an initial report on oral histories being collected from three surviving Branch Davidians: Bonnie Haldeman, the mother of David Koresh, Clive Doyle, and Sheila Martin. Their accounts are being made into autobiographies. Interviews with a fourth survivor, Catherine Matteson, are being prepared for deposit in an archive and inform the material gathered from Bonnie Haldeman, Clive Doyle, and Sheila Martin. Oral histories provid…
Deaths in the Fire at the Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel
Kenneth G. C. Newport's book, The Branch Davidians of Waco (2006) has placed responsibility for the 19 April 1993 fire at Mount Carmel Center, outside Waco, Texas, primarily on the Branch Davidians, arguing that they were motivated to die as a result of their apocalyptic theology of martyrdom. Newport writes that after the siege was initiated by the 28 February assault by agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Branch Davidi…
In Memoriam
Research Article| May 01 2009 In Memoriam: Bonnie Sue Haldeman Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2009) 12 (4): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2009.12.4.136a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
The Lee Hancock Collection
The Lee Hancock Collection of materials on the Branch Davidian case, located at the Loyola University New Orleans archive, contains an impressive set of internal memos, interview reports, and expert reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Texas Rangers, in addition to numerous government reports and documents relating to the criminal and civil trials. It also contains an array of new…
Millennialism in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This article explains millennialism as a radical break from status-quoism and an aspiration to experience a total overhaul at the level of reflexive life planning. Changes and mobility, the central factors of millennialism, are expressed as “collective salvation” and envision, both as catastrophic and progressive changes. Despite its mention across the religious spectrum, the phenomenon allots a relatively protracted role to monotheism. Often rel…
Millennial Visions and Conflict with Society
This article deals with issue of conflicts emanating from socially incompatible millennialist values. Millennialist strains across the spectrum assume two common factors—the end of the world as it is hitherto and the ushering of a transformed order and group mobilization in anticipation or in furtherance of anticipated events. Social mobilization generates a two-fold responsibility for the millennialists—first, they should deliver on promises and…
The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
'The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism' offers readers an in-depth look at both the theoretical underpinnings of the study of millennialism and its many manifestations across history and cultures.
The Fundamentalist Mindset
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History. Edited by Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman, and James W. Jones, with Katharine A. Boyd. Foreword by Martin E. Marty. Oxford University Press, 2010. xxi + 274 pages. $99.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Catherine Wessinger Catherine Wessinger Loyo…
Ellen Harmon White
Journal Article Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet Get access Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald L. Numbers. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi, 365 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1267–1268, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav159 Published: 01 March 2015
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