USES AND ABUSES OF APOCALYPTICISM IN SOUTH ASIA: A CREATIVE HUMAN DEVICE

If anything is clear from all the hype of Y2K and its subsequent bubble-burst into pedestrian normalcy, it should be that time in an arbitrary human construction, artfully and not-so-artfully used, as a part of a rhetoric of persuasion, to generate meaning, purpose, and the assuredness Of one's...

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Main Author: Forsthoefel, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2001
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2001, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 417-430
Further subjects:B Apocalypticism
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