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Stephen Hunt is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Part 1 Sociological aspects: sociological dimensions of Christian Millenarianism, M. Hamilton; whose time is it anyway? Evangelicals, the Millennium and Millenarianism, M. Percy; Europe as anti-Christ - North American pre-Millenarianism, O. Lindermayer; the rise, fall and return of post-Millenarianism, S. Hunt. Part 2 Historical dimensions: millenarian thought in the first-century church, S. Porter; Millenarianism in the Reformation and English Revolution, A. Bradstock; Millenarianism and prophecy in the Medieval period, D. Watt; our unspeakable comfort - Irving, Albury, and the origins of the pretribulation rapture, A. Walker. Part 3 Global movements: the revolutionary dimension of Millenarianism - the case of the T'aiping rebellion, S. Hunt; Seventh-Day Adventism, K. Newport; en route to the Marian Kingdom - Catholic Apocalypticism and the Army of Mary, Massimo Introvigne; the Millenarianism of the Pentecostal movement, M. Poloma; a Peruvian Messiah and the retreat from the Apocalypse, D. Thompson. Part 4 Syncretic and cultist forms: all I am is religion -David Koresh's Christian Millenarianism, E. Gallaher; the Millenarian orientations of the Messianic communities, s. Palmer; New Age Millenarianism and its Christian influences, M. York; violent Millenarianism with a Christian touch - syncretic themes in the Millennial perspective of Aum Shinriko.