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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Millenarian Movements"”.
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Millenarian movements and the politics of liberation: the Rastafarians of Jamaica
… is to explore the relationship between millenarian movements and the politics of liberation, with particular reference to the Rastafarians of Jamaica. By the politics of liberation I mean, the infusion of a secular revolutionary ethic at both the individual and group level. It follows …
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A sociological study of the relationship between religious violence and economic globalization
… Girard's scapegoating mechanism; the studies of millenarian movements; and Mark Juegensmeyer's "grand scenario" theory. Chapter 3 examines the irrationality of economic globalization. The irrationality of economic globalization is described and theorized as New Colonialism, McDonaldization, and …
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Dead Bones Dancing: The Taki Onqoy, Archaism, and Crisis in Sixteenth Century Peru.
… and spiritual pressures found an outlet in a millenarian movement known as <em>Taki Onqoy</em>. This thesis discusses the Taki Onqoy in the context of the decade of crisis, and its role as a mechanism of archaism by which the Andean people endeavored to restructure their post-conquest …