附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-390) and index.
Introduction: The Interacting Dynamics of Millennial Beliefs, Persecution, and Violence / Catherine Wessinger -- 1. Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: The Mormons / Grant Underwood -- 2. From Vision to Violence: The Wounded Knee Massacre / Michaelene E. Pesantubbee -- 3. "Theology Is Life and Death": David Koresh on Violence, Persecution, and the Millennium / Eugene V. Gallagher -- 4. Shooting Dreads on Sight: Violence, Persecution, Millennialism, and Dominica's Dread Act / Richard C. Salter -- 5. "American as Cherry Pie": Peoples Temple and Violence in America / Rebecca Moore -- 6. The Magic of Death: The Suicides of the Solar Temple / Massimo Introvigne -- 7. Imagined Persecution: Aum Shinrikyo, Millennialism, and the Legitimation of Violence / Ian Reader -- 8. Millenarian Tragedies in South Africa: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement and the Bulhock Massacre / Christine Steyn -- 9. Apocalypse, Persecution, and Self-Immolation: Mass Suicides among the Old Believers in Late-Seventeenth-Century Russia / Thomas Robbins -- 10. Western Millennial Ideology Goes East: The Taiping Revolution and Mao's Great Leap Forward / Scott Lowe -- 11. Nazism as a Millennialist Movement / Robert Ellwood -- 12. Japanese Lotus Millennialism: From Militant Nationalism to Contemporary Peace Movements / Jacqueline Stone -- 13. Time, Authority, and Ethics in the Khmer Rouge: Elements of the Millennial Vision in Year Zero / Richard C. Salter -- 14. Real Paranoids Have Real Enemies: The Genesis of the ZOG Discourse in the American National Socialist Subculture / Jeffrey Kaplan -- 15. The Justus Freemen Standoff: The Importance of the Analysis of Religion in Avoiding Violent Outcomes / Jean E. Rosenfeld -- 16. A Brief History of Millennialism and Suggestions for a New Paradigm for Use in Critical Incidents: A Presentation to the Los Angeles Police Department / Jean E. Rosenfeld -- Afterword: Millennial Violence in Contemporary America / Michael Barkun.