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Apocalypse Now: Modern Millennial Movements 3/4 (DV0159)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : DIV-3-APNOW

The course looks at the interaction of Western missionary ideas and indigenous cosmologies, in those cases which produced millennial or messianic movements. The course will explore the causation of such movements, and looks at a number of case studies such as Taiping in China, Ghost Dance in North America, Kitawala in Central Africa and Cargo movements in Melanesia.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : History of Christianity as a World Religion 1 recommended

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Ecclesiastical History, (School of Divinity, Schedule B)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central
Lecture	Thursday	11:10	12:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The successful completion of this course should enable students to:
- have a reasonable knowledge of the process of inter-cultural interaction bnetween missionary Christianity and indigenous cosmologies in different parts of the world from the mid-nineteenth centry onwards;
- understand the factors which led to this interaction becoming millenarian in specific circumstances;
- acquire a detailed knowledge of the specific movements dealt with in the course, as well as one or more other movements which they will reasearch independently;
- identify other similar millenarian movements which they may come across in their reading.