first full-length treatment of apocalyptic terrorism covers the history, major transformations, and characteristics of radical apocalypticism, based on evidence

This book explores a cross-cultural worldview called 'radical apocalypticism' that underlies the majority of terrorist movements in the twenty-first century. Al

This book analyzes the effects of economic, social, and political disruptions that have come with integration into the global economy for countries in five diff

Although apocalyptic visions and predictions have long been part of classical and contemporary Islam, this book is the first scholarly work to cover this dispar

National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on ending it all. Since the earliest