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Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. www.censamm.org
We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Cambridge tomorrow for the first day of our annual conference. For anyone interested in attending or watching the livestream, please contact James Crossley. censamm.org/blog/censamm...
September 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Cambridge tomorrow for the first day of our annual conference. For anyone interested in attending or watching the livestream, please contact James Crossley. censamm.org/blog/censamm...
New open-access article from Joe Davidson: "Apocalyptic Democracy" doi.org/10.1177/0032...
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
New open-access article from Joe Davidson: "Apocalyptic Democracy" doi.org/10.1177/0032...
From Benjamin E. Zeller: "The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light: An Islamic Millennial New Religious Movement" doi.org/10.1353/nvr....
August 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
From Benjamin E. Zeller: "The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light: An Islamic Millennial New Religious Movement" doi.org/10.1353/nvr....
James Crossley's recent talk: ' Building a New Jerusalem on the Rubble of War' is now available on YouTube
youtu.be/U4JPIf2WDcs
youtu.be/U4JPIf2WDcs
August 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
James Crossley's recent talk: ' Building a New Jerusalem on the Rubble of War' is now available on YouTube
youtu.be/U4JPIf2WDcs
youtu.be/U4JPIf2WDcs
Following his death, the life, work, and legacy of Ozzy Osbourne has been widely discussed in the media. Less discussed is the wide-ranging apocalypticism running throughout his lyrics.
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and the Apocalypse censamm.org/blog/ozzy-os...
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and the Apocalypse censamm.org/blog/ozzy-os...
August 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Following his death, the life, work, and legacy of Ozzy Osbourne has been widely discussed in the media. Less discussed is the wide-ranging apocalypticism running throughout his lyrics.
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and the Apocalypse censamm.org/blog/ozzy-os...
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and the Apocalypse censamm.org/blog/ozzy-os...
"Birsa’s ‘millenarian’ prophecy was developed from traditional (or ‘indigenous’) Munda beliefs, Hinduism, and Christianity. This involved the idea of the restoration of the golden age into which Birsa’s followers would enter."
See the full article here: www.cdamm.org/articles/bir...
See the full article here: www.cdamm.org/articles/bir...
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"Birsa’s ‘millenarian’ prophecy was developed from traditional (or ‘indigenous’) Munda beliefs, Hinduism, and Christianity. This involved the idea of the restoration of the golden age into which Birsa’s followers would enter."
See the full article here: www.cdamm.org/articles/bir...
See the full article here: www.cdamm.org/articles/bir...
From Ihor Kuryliak and Bohdan Kuryliak: "The Number 666 in Revelation 13,18 in the Light of Daniel 3" poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
From Ihor Kuryliak and Bohdan Kuryliak: "The Number 666 in Revelation 13,18 in the Light of Daniel 3" poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
New article from Yaakov Ariel:
"Messianism, the Holy Land and the Jews: the roots and development of Christian Zionism in its first generations"
"Messianism, the Holy Land and the Jews: the roots and development of Christian Zionism in its first generations"
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New article from Yaakov Ariel:
"Messianism, the Holy Land and the Jews: the roots and development of Christian Zionism in its first generations"
"Messianism, the Holy Land and the Jews: the roots and development of Christian Zionism in its first generations"
Mark your calendars, this year's CenSAMM Annual Conference will take place at the University of Cambridge, 23-24 September 2025.
The theme for the conference is "Apocalypticism in Britain Today." More details on our website: censamm.org/events/annua...
The theme for the conference is "Apocalypticism in Britain Today." More details on our website: censamm.org/events/annua...
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Mark your calendars, this year's CenSAMM Annual Conference will take place at the University of Cambridge, 23-24 September 2025.
The theme for the conference is "Apocalypticism in Britain Today." More details on our website: censamm.org/events/annua...
The theme for the conference is "Apocalypticism in Britain Today." More details on our website: censamm.org/events/annua...
There's a chapter by Shannon Lee Dawdy on 'Contemporary Doomsday Devices and the Undoing of End-Times' from the new edited volume _Undoing Things_ that may be of interest to scholars of apocalyptic and millenarian studies: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
July 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There's a chapter by Shannon Lee Dawdy on 'Contemporary Doomsday Devices and the Undoing of End-Times' from the new edited volume _Undoing Things_ that may be of interest to scholars of apocalyptic and millenarian studies: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
From Sarah Leilani Parijs "Moby-Dick's Eschatological Animal Apocalypse: Whales in Spirit, Whales in Flesh" muse.jhu.edu/article/960348
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
From Sarah Leilani Parijs "Moby-Dick's Eschatological Animal Apocalypse: Whales in Spirit, Whales in Flesh" muse.jhu.edu/article/960348
Weichi Zhou and Yingying Zhang, "The Eastward Transmission of Augustine’s Eschatology in Ming and Qing China"
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July 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Weichi Zhou and Yingying Zhang, "The Eastward Transmission of Augustine’s Eschatology in Ming and Qing China"
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New, open-access, article from Deane Galbraith: "Unveiling the length and girth of John’s Millennium, part 2 (girth): Comparing Revelation 20 with book 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid"
doi.org/10.1177/0951...
doi.org/10.1177/0951...
July 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New, open-access, article from Deane Galbraith: "Unveiling the length and girth of John’s Millennium, part 2 (girth): Comparing Revelation 20 with book 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid"
doi.org/10.1177/0951...
doi.org/10.1177/0951...
Still a few months until publication, but we're excited to see this Handbook feature so many scholars we've worked with over the years: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...
July 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Still a few months until publication, but we're excited to see this Handbook feature so many scholars we've worked with over the years: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...
New, open-access article from Tobias Ålöw: "Reverberations of Revelation: Thrash Metal Retellings of John’s Apocalypse"
doi.org/10.1525/jrpc...
doi.org/10.1525/jrpc...
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
New, open-access article from Tobias Ålöw: "Reverberations of Revelation: Thrash Metal Retellings of John’s Apocalypse"
doi.org/10.1525/jrpc...
doi.org/10.1525/jrpc...
From Neal Curtis: "Red Pill: The Structure of Contemporary Apocalypse" doi.org/10.17885/hei...
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
From Neal Curtis: "Red Pill: The Structure of Contemporary Apocalypse" doi.org/10.17885/hei...
New Article from Toni Saarinen: "Apocalyptic Actors and Historical Trajectories in Mythic Discourse of Conspiracism"
Read the full article: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
Read the full article: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
June 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New Article from Toni Saarinen: "Apocalyptic Actors and Historical Trajectories in Mythic Discourse of Conspiracism"
Read the full article: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
Read the full article: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
From Adrian Popovici, "Exploring the Interplay between Apocalyptic and Millenarian Narratives within Populist Ideologies" www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle...
June 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
From Adrian Popovici, "Exploring the Interplay between Apocalyptic and Millenarian Narratives within Populist Ideologies" www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle...
"Investigating a range of eschatological ideologies, this volume explores the connection between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of Jerusalem."
New from Emma O'Donnell Polyakov: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jerusalem...
New from Emma O'Donnell Polyakov: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jerusalem...
June 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"Investigating a range of eschatological ideologies, this volume explores the connection between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of Jerusalem."
New from Emma O'Donnell Polyakov: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jerusalem...
New from Emma O'Donnell Polyakov: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jerusalem...
From Callum Jones: 'We the people, not the shecple': QAnon and the transnational mobilisation of millennialist far-right conspiracy theories doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
June 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
From Callum Jones: 'We the people, not the shecple': QAnon and the transnational mobilisation of millennialist far-right conspiracy theories doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
New open-access article from Lorenzo DiTomasso: "Apocalypses and apocalyptic: A response to Benjamin E. Reynolds" doi.org/10.1177/0951...
June 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
New open-access article from Lorenzo DiTomasso: "Apocalypses and apocalyptic: A response to Benjamin E. Reynolds" doi.org/10.1177/0951...
New edited volume: A Companion to Popular Apocalypticism in the High and Late Middle Ages
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
May 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New edited volume: A Companion to Popular Apocalypticism in the High and Late Middle Ages
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
New from Said Amir Arjomand, _Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam_ www.ucpress.edu/books/messia...
April 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New from Said Amir Arjomand, _Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam_ www.ucpress.edu/books/messia...
Came across this open access article from a few years ago today: Seth L. Sanders "Why Prophecy Became a Biblical Genre: First Isaiah as an Instance of Ancient Near Eastern Text-Building" works.hcommons.org/records/f293...
April 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Came across this open access article from a few years ago today: Seth L. Sanders "Why Prophecy Became a Biblical Genre: First Isaiah as an Instance of Ancient Near Eastern Text-Building" works.hcommons.org/records/f293...
Recent open-access article from Nikolai Kiel: "The Apocalypse of Peter as the Origin of the Christian Hell. Sense and Purpose of the Afterlife Punishment in Fire" Millennium, vol. 21, no. 1, 2024, pp. 37-62. doi.org/10.1515/mill...
April 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Recent open-access article from Nikolai Kiel: "The Apocalypse of Peter as the Origin of the Christian Hell. Sense and Purpose of the Afterlife Punishment in Fire" Millennium, vol. 21, no. 1, 2024, pp. 37-62. doi.org/10.1515/mill...