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A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found something extraordinary. For here, within the 'Ark', lived two members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many groups and their leaders who from the early nineteenth century onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and prospective mother of the Messiah ('Shiloh'), Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the first book to explore the religious thinking of all the Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class and authority. The volume will sell to scholars and students of religion and cultural studies as well as social history.

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Author:   Jane Shaw ,  Philip Lockley ,  Neil Quilliam ,  Mark Thompson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9781784538460

ISBN 10:   1784538469
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introducing the Southcottians (Jane Shaw and Philip Lockley); 2. Joanna Southcott's Apocalyptic Theology, 1792-1814 (Matthew Niblett); 3. Southcottians in Britain, 1801-1851: Revealing a Popular Religion (Philip Lockley); 4. A Southcottian Methodist: the Prophetic Odyssey of George Turner (Deborah Madden); 5. The Emergence of Southcottian Israelite Theology, 1815-1863 (Deborah Madden); 6. Christian Israelites in the English-speaking World, 1823-1863 (Philip Lockley); 7. The Jezreelites and their World, 1875-1922 (Ruth Clayton Windscheffel); 8. Israelites in America: The House of David and Mary's City of David (Deborah Madden); 9. Southcottians in the Early Twentieth Century: the Panacea Society (Jane Shaw); 10. A Southcottian Healing Panacea, 1924-2012 (Alistair Lockhart); 11. Southcottian Archives Today: A Global Guide; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography of Works connected to the Oxford Prophecy Project; Index

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Jane Shaw is Dean for Religious Life and Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Miracles in Enlightenment England (2006) and of Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers (2011), for which she won the San Francisco Book Festival History Prize. Philip Lockley is a member of the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University and was formerly a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Visionary Religion and Radicalism in Early Industrial England (2013).

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