The 'returns to religion': Messianism, Christianity and the revolutionary tradition. Part I: 'Wakefulness to the future'

Historical Materialism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 59-84

  Roberts, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti historicism; Apocalypticism; Christianity; Dialectic; Eschatology; Judaism; Messianism; Transcendentalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949090908     PISSN: 14654466     EISSN: 1569206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156920608X296079     Document Type: Review

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