It is this vision, in particular, that is in view when scholars use the derivative terms--apocalyptic and apocalypticism--and it is this apocalyptic dimension that is especially pronounced in early Mormon
millennialism.
"Southern Baptists and
Millennialism, 1900-2000: Conceptual Patterns and Historical Expressions." Baptist History & Heritage 34:2 (Spring 1999): 7-27.
RAIL: I'm interested in the American notion of time, especially that of apocalyptic
millennialism, which your book refers to by being set in 1999.
Evangelical
Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-2000.
For instance, it has an entry "Adolescence" but none on "
millennialism," a topic prominent in Mennonite and Brethren history.
This volume synthesizes the scholarly literature on end-times
millennialism in the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) for a general audience.
(17) The movement's millenarian teachings, i.e., "dispensational
millennialism", divided history into distinct periods or dispensations.
It is uncertain how many of the alumni had been awakened to evangelical
millennialism through the persistent influence of Nott, but Gregory described him as a venerable Christian leader and the Union brotherhood as his reverent followers.
In response to severe persecution at the hands of Louis XIV, the Camisards relied upon Reformed Protestant forms of piety and theology that stressed
millennialism, prophecy, primitivism, mysticism, anti-Catholicism, and spiritual warfare.
Trotsky and Canada's Louis Riel were both intellectuals, men of action, and desirous of a more glowing future, but Trotsky's
millennialism was of a different order.
Millennialism is very much alive and well, not just in West Asia, but the US as well.
With this context in mind, I will trace the review's themes--including prophecy,
millennialism, and the construction of sacred space--in 'Usher', showing how the story illustrates Poe's religious and literary investments in the Holy Land.