millenarians

I never read anything that laid bare more frankly than did this diary the mischief that the sensational teaching of these millenarians is doing at the present moment.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894

One Shia narrative suggests an uprising after an attempt to arrest a radical Shia cleric; the other indicates the group consisted of "Twelvers" (sometimes referred to as millenarians) who sought to bring about the return of the Mahdi by assassinating the four main Najaf clerics (basically, we're talking about a cult - far cry from Al Qaeda if we're now fighting religious cults).

01/29/2007 2007

In fact, Marx, like the pre-mils (or "millenarians"), went further to hold that the reign of evil on earth would reach a peak just before the apocalypse ( "the darkness before the dawn").

LewRockwell.com 2009

Protestant millenarians and Catholic apologists, Arab nationalists and radical jihadists can and have taken up this language and reinvented it for their own purposes.

Jay Rubenstein: Clash Of Civilizations Or Nuisance? Medieval Crusading And The War on Terror Jay Rubenstein 2011

Protestant millenarians and Catholic apologists, Arab nationalists and radical jihadists can and have taken up this language and reinvented it for their own purposes.

Jay Rubenstein: Clash Of Civilizations Or Nuisance? Medieval Crusading And The War on Terror Jay Rubenstein 2011

(**) What about those evangelical pro-Israel millenarians?

Balloon Juice » 2007 » January 2007

In reality, this label is accurate only in so far as it describes the actions and philosophies of a relatively small number of primarily Sunni Muslim millenarians who were spawned in Washington's anti-Soviet wars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Transcending the Colonizer's History: A Review of Hamid Dabashi's Iran, A People Interrupted 2008

Union leaders, socialists, academic egalitarians, Marxists, totalitarians and millenarians of every kind have a strong emotional investment in their policies and theories which ultimately leads to ideological and finally to material investment.

The Social Order As Community 2008

Which side of the political spectrum is home to back-to-the-Earth, anti-market, animal-rights, New Age organic crystal-chakra millenarians who are presently organized not around a policy platform but a personality cult?

If a Former Goddess of the Right Votes For Obama, Well, Her Ideological Compatriots Spare no Vitriol 2008

Instead of ending history, Washington's support of the Israeli government in Tel Aviv and Islamic millenarians in Afghanistan and elsewhere has turned history into an echo of the Middle Ages.

Transcending the Colonizer's History: A Review of Hamid Dabashi's Iran, A People Interrupted 2008