Millenarian Scholarship in America

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ID2731960
AuthorsDavid E Smith (0000-0003-2791-4964, corresponding author)
Year1965
Volume17
Issue3
Pages535
Publication date1965-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2710907
OpenAlexW2326026223
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Fortunately, the conditions lamented by Mr. Brown in 1952 no longer persist. The appearance in the past decade of a number of studies in social and religious history emphasizing the importance of the idea of the imminent millennium has made it seem especially timely for a discussion of that subject with reference to its impact in America. I refer specifically to such studies as Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), which is already something of a classic in millennial interpretations of the Middle Ages; Ernest Tuveson's Millennium and Utopia (1949), which explores the relation of seventeenthcentury millennial theory and political activity to the idea of progress; Charles Sanford's The Quest for Paradise (1961), which applies some of these ideas in a limited way to their embodiment in American themes; Whitney Cross' The Burned-Over District (1950), where the idea is examined with reference to a single place and period; Timothy Smith's Revivalism and Social Reform (1957), which establishes the fact that millennial expectations were at the inspired center of nineteenth-century sectarian development; George Williams' Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought (1962), one of the most recent and stimulating studies

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