In the early 1840s, Beecher was an evangelical
millennialist.
Mann was not an evangelical
millennialist, but he understood how the political support of
millennialists could bring about universal education.
He was himself the author or editor of a number of
millennialist works on the First World War and Jewish restoration to Palestine.
The Muslim world includes the secular Arab nationalist movements of Ba'athism and Nasserism; Saudi Arabia's dominant and strict Wahhabism; the revolutionary,
millennialist dogma of the ruling Shi'ites in Iran and their Middle Eastern satellites; the Kemalist secular, republican, and statist tradition of Turkey; the tolerant and multicultural societies and capitalist economies of Indonesia and Malaysia; the radical Islamists of South and Central Asia; Westernized, multiethnic, multi-religious Lebanon; and Muammar Qaddafi's strict and somewhat bizarre Islamic revolutionary system in Libya.
"I'm not saying that I can see the green shoots of recovery but there is a risk of us all starting to sound like a
millennialist suicide cult"
More recently, it is applied to those who defend Islamism as it pursues its own
millennialist fantasies of a reborn "Caliphate" and ultimate world domination: (45)
"To contend that problems of international competitiveness can be solved by educational reform," Cremin wrote, "especially educational reform defined solely as school reform, is not merely utopian and
millennialist, it is at best a foolish and at worst a crass effort to direct attention away from those truly responsible for doing something about competitiveness." (13)
"Spending an hour with the FT is like being trapped in a room with assorted members of a
millennialist suicide cult" - London's Mayor, Boris Johnson.
The popular weekly newspapers made money hyping the change of the millennium [...] tapping into a deeply rooted
millennialist world-view of a distinct segment of our population who were cautious about end time possibilities and willing to imagine various, wild even frightening scenarios.
In Chapter 6 Berkeley's 'Bermuda project' is revealingly interpreted in the light of several theologically related issues in the history of ideas, such as the quest for an earthly paradise, the aspiration to an educational utopia, messianism and the
millennialist context of the times.
Zizek argues that the 'passion for the Real' in the twentieth century has ended up 'in the pure semblance of the spectacular effect of the Real', and this is how he reads the 9/11 attacks, as a fantastic spectacle that has been rehearsed in the myriad
millennialist disaster films of the 1990s.