As we approach the Millennium, apocalyptic expectations are rising in North
America and throughout the world. Beyond the symbolic aura of the millennium,
this excitation is fed by currents of unsettling social and cultural change. The
"millennial myth" ingrained in American culture is continually generating new
movements, which draw upon the myth and also reshape and reconstruct it.
"Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem" examines many types of apocalypticism such as
economic, racialist, environmental, feminist, as well as those erupting from
established churches. Many of these movements are volatile and potentially
explosive.
"Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem" brings together scholars of apocalyptic and
millennial groups to explore aspects of the contemporary