id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jb74g4gaeze7tlooskzdbav4x4 Nicholas Campion The 2012 Mayan calendar prophecies in the context of the western millenarian tradition 2011 6 .pdf application/pdf 3706 223 50 2012 Maya prophecy, millenarianism, New Age, historicism encouraged the wider counter-cultural Maya Prophecy Movement (MPM). We should also bring modern New Age culture into consideration as a species of millenarian thought (Hanegraaff 1996: 96, 98–103), based as it is In addition, New Age culture possesses the following characteristics (Campion Both Christian millenarianism and New Age prophecy draw their legitimacy from powerful political ideologies of twentieth-century Europe, were secular forms of millenarianism: both assumed that history follows patterns that are broadly predetermined and Baillie argued that progress theory evolved directly out of Jewish and Christian millenarianism's message of hope that a new world will be born. One framework for understanding whether millenarian prophecies are peaceful or violent was suggested by Desroche (1979: 93–94), who identified two forms of Christian Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, London & New York. ./cache/work_jb74g4gaeze7tlooskzdbav4x4.pdf ./txt/work_jb74g4gaeze7tlooskzdbav4x4.txt