The social anthropologist can recognise in the millenarian sentiments of the Interregnum a parallel phenomenon to the chiliastic movements which still occur in the underdeveloped countries of today.
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Chiliastic
//ˌkɪ.liˈæ.stɪk//
Synonyms for "chiliastic" (13 found)
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German
1 entries- chiliastisch adj (millenarian)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- hilijanski adj (millenarian)
Swedish
1 entries- kiliastisk adj (millenarian)
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The evanescent quality of Debord's later writing, his chiliastic serenity, is patent here: a voice speaking from a world one might want to make and then to live in, but also the voice of the mad professor in Eric Ambler's spy thriller Cause for Alarm.
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Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult.
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In his pioneering study The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn showed how Nazism was also a chiliastic movement.
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