Thinking inside the Cages: Norman Cohn, Anabaptist Münster, and Polemically Inspired Assumptions about Apocalyptic Violence
This essay uses the method of historiographical criticism to reexamine the frameworks used to research the relationship between apocalypse and violence. Its focus is the presentation of Anabaptist rule at Münster in the mid-1530s. New religions scholars and historians alike often cite this case as e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Californiarnia Press
[2018]
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Nova religio
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 38-62 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Münster
/ End times expectations
/ Anabaptists
/ Polemics
/ Violence
/ Anti-cult movement
/ History 1530-1540
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KDH Christian sects |
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new religions studies
B Anabaptism B Apocalypticism B Violence B Heresy B Sectarianism B Reformation B Polemics B anticult movement |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |