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Есхатологија, апокалиптичка књижевност и миленаризам
Power of revalations – eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism
Author(s): Milan TomaševićSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Anthropology, Studies of Literature
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: eschatology; apocalyptic literature; apocalypticism; millenarism
Summary/Abstract: Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context, also. Presenting apocalyptic literature as a compex genre, paper offers a view of multifunctional phenomenon that had been used by different social groups and agents. Paper portrays apocalypses as a part of revolutionary ideoloical texts and paralysing discourse of fear. By refering onto a structural liminality and prophetic method, it deconstructs way of manipulating with an apocalyptic imagination and socio-political acting. By representing main product of eschatology, as mileniarism and apocalypticism, paper offers understanding of revelations as a part of theology, teleology and philosophy of history and humankind.
Journal: Етноантрополошки проблеми
- Issue Year: 11/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 175-192
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Serbian