millenarianism
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English
Etymology
From millenarian + -ism. Compare millenarism, millennianism, millennialism.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmɪ.lɪˈnɛə.ɹɪ.əˌnɪz.əm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmɪl.əˈnɛɹ.i.ənˌɪz.əm/
Noun
millenarianism (countable and uncountable, plural millenarianisms)
- A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 139:
- It is hard to say for certain just why this brief but notable shift from passive to active millenarianism should have occurred during the Interregnum.
- 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 406:
- When Herman Melvilled visited , he was fascinated yet repulsed by the 'contagion' of American Christian millenarianism – 'this preposterous Jewmania', he called it, 'half-melancholy, half-farcical'.