Millenarianism - Latin America and Native North America - Old World Origins, Importance In Latin America And Native North America, Bibliography
The history of humankind is replete with the desire for better times, a more just order, and leaders who can bring their people into a better world, often having to defeat or destroy a world that is viewed as unjust and inequitable. These desires have frequently been fueled by faith or have taken specifically religious forms; and in addition have often been organized around or contained elements of ethnicity, identity, and race.
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In the area stretching from Asia Minor through Europe and into regions colonized by political and religious powers emanating from these areas—such as the New World—these desires have often been linked to the Judeo-Christian tradition. These beliefs and desires and the movements they have generated have become popularly known as millenarianism or chiliasm (a word of Greek origin). How…
These movements and interpretations of them are especially prominent among the native peoples of the Americas and those who study them. In the late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century United States, Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee nation, and his brother Tenskwautawa, known as "The Prophet," organized Shawnee and other tribes of the Midwest in a movement to reject European ways…
Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium. 2nd ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1961. Flores Galindo, Alberto. Buscando un Inca. Lima, Peru: Instituto de Apoyo Agrario, 1987. Gosner, Kevin. Soldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya Rebellion. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. Stavig, Ward. "Túpac Amaru, the Body Politic, and the Embodiment of Hope: Inca Herit…
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