The political potential of millenarian religion has long exercised the interests of scholars of western history and religion. The religious vision of an imminent messianic age in modernity was once co
This book explores the trans-Atlantic history of Protestant traditions of communalism – communities of shared property.The sixteenth-century Reformation may have destroyed monasticism in northern Euro
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of
