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Memoirs of William Miller...
This book of essays samples current scholarship on New Netherland, touching on topics such as New Netherland in Historical Memory. New Netherland in the Atlantic World, the Political Economy of New Netherland, and New Netherland's Directors.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
The Disappointed
The first edition (now out of print) grew out of a conference held in Vermont, May-June 1984; the second includes minor changes and one important new document. The subject is the thinking and influence of William Miller whose prediction of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world "about the year 1843" fostered several new religious movements, including Seventh-day Adventists. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A History of the Apocalypse
Religion. For thousands of years this thing has dictated which people should live and which people should die, what shape our buildings should have or what colors our garments should contain, what food people should eat or what words people should speak. If religion is the opium of the masses, then beliefs about the end of the world are like overdoses. People touched by such beliefs no longer rely on a hidden, personal and intimate god, contemplated upon from the safe distance of the beating human heart. They live with the promise of divine intervention at a grand scale on the current coordinates of space and time. This can be an exceptional motivator and a game changer in terms of civil obedience, both at an individual and collective level. In the name of an immediate and palpable deity people can commit shocking cruelties. However, such belief can also account for some of the most exceptional social developments in human history.
