The Shadows and Lights of Waco

Millennialism Today

James D. Faubion

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Princeton University Press
18 February 2002

Christian theology; Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects; Social & cultural anthropology

"When James Faubion visited the site of the Branch Davidian compound after its conflagration, what he found surprised him. Though the popular imagination had relegated the site's millennialist denizens to the radical fringe, Faubion found not psychopathology but a sturdy and comprehensive system for understanding the world. He also found, in the person of Amo Paul Bishop Roden, a fascinating spokeswoman for that system. Based on more than five years of fieldwork, including extensive life-history interviews with Roden, Faubion interprets millennialism as a ""master-pedagogy."" He reveals it as simultaneously a poetics, a rhetoric, a physics, an approach to history, a course of training, a gnosis, and an ethics. Millennialism resists the categories that both academic and popular analysts use to discuss religion by melding the sacred and secular, the spiritual and political, and the transcendental and commonsensical. In this respect, and in others, millennialism is a premodern pedagogy that has grown resolutely counter-modern. Yet, mainstream culture sees in it not a critique of modernity but dangerous lunacy.

This disjunction prompts Faubion to investigate how the mainstream came to confine religion to an inner and other-worldly faith--an inquiry that allows him to account for the irrationalization of millennialism.

Against this historical background, we can discern the genealogy of Adventist millennialism and make sense of contemporary religious events, including the actions of a small group in the central Texas prairie."

By: James D. Faubion
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780691089980
ISBN 10: 0691089981
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 18 February 2002
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Prolegomena xiii PART ONE: A Conversion 1 PART TWO: A Gnosis 35 PART THREE: An Ethics 115 PART FOUR: A Colonization 161 Notes 191 References 211 Index 227

James D. Faubion is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the editor of Rethinking the Subject and Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism (Princeton).

Reviews for The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today

At once a thoroughly engrossing project and a wonderfully experimental piece of writing, this is a book of deep and original arguments. -Susan Friend Harding, author of The Book of Jerry Falwell