Prophecy in the New Millennium

Chapter 1 From the Extraordinary to the Ordinary: An Overview of Prophecy, Suzanne Newcombe, Sarah Harvey; Part 1 Perspectives on Prophecy; Chapter 2 Messages from Beyond: Prophecy in the Contemporary World, Michael Barkun; Chapter 3 Prophecy: Social Scientific Perspectives and Lubavitch, Simon Dein; Chapter 4 Prophecy on the Margins: A Case Study of the Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth-Century England, Warren Johnston; Chapter 5 Prophecy: A Perspective from the Early Church and the Contemporary Experience of a Methodist Minister, Andrew Maguire; Part 2 Perennial Prophecy in Mainstream Traditions; Chapter 6 The New Apostolic Reformation: Main Street Mystics and Everyday Prophets, Margaret M. Poloma, Matthew T. Lee; Chapter 7 The Mahdi and the End-Times in Islam, Hugh Beattie; Chapter 8 The Coming Golden Age: On Prophecy in Hinduism, Luis González-Reimann; Chapter 9 Divination, Prophecy and Oracles in Tibetan Buddhism, Christopher Bell; Chapter 10 Chasing the Horizon: Prophecy in Secular Contexts, Wendy M. Grossman; Part 3 Contemporary Case Studies; Chapter 11 Living in the Time of the End: A Personal Commentary from My Experiences with the Children of God and the Family International, Abi Freeman May; Chapter 12 Mormonism and The Family International: Toward a Theory of Prophecy in the Development of New Religious Movements, Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd; Chapter 13 The Dispensation of Providence: Growing Up as a Blessed Child in the Unification Church, Hani Zaccarelli; Chapter 14 Waco: Living Prophecy, Livingstone Fagan; Chapter 15 (Always) Living in the End-Times: The ‘Rolling Prophecy’ of the Conspiracy Milieu, David G. Robertson; Part 4 2012 Prophecies; Chapter 16 From Mushrooms to the Stars: 2012 and the Apocalyptic Milieu, Andrew Fergus Wilson; Chapter 17 Viral Email and the 2012 Apocalypse Contagion: Seven Reasons Why the World WON’T End in 2012, Kristine Larsen; Chapter 18 Remembering the Future: 2012 as Planetary Transition 1 This paper is based on a talk given at the Inform Seminar, New Religions and Prophecy, held at the London School of Economics, 22 November 2008 and has been supplemented with material taken from a www.dkfoundation.co.uk web-page, ‘The Particular: Where We Are Now’, written for web site readers June 2011., Suzanne Rough; Chapter 19 2012 and the Revival of the New Age Movement: The Mayan Calendar and the Cultic Milieu in Switzerland, Jean-François Mayer; Chapter 20 Looking into the Future: Why Prophecies Will Persist, J. Gordon Melton;