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American messiahs : false prophets of a damned nation
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Shares information on messianic prophets in United States history, including Cyrus Teed, Father Divine, and Jim Jones. "Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness s...
Shares information on messianic prophets in United States history, including Cyrus Teed, Father Divine, and Jim Jones.
"Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history." -- Publisher's description
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- Creator
- Adam Morris
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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- xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781631492136, 1631492136
- OCLC
- on1037810718
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-390) and index.
- Introduction: the messianic impulse in America -- Women in the wilderness. The person formerly known as Jemima Wilkinson ; The universal friends ; The all-friend in the city of brotherly love ; New Jerusalem ; Mother Ann ; The united society of believers in Christ's second appearing ; The era of manifestations -- The chosen vessel. America's best-known mystic ; The Poughkeepsie seer ; The Fox sisters ; The apostolic circle ; Poet in New York ; The brotherhood of the new life ; Salem-on-Erie ; California idyll ; Paradise lost -- The great cosmic egg. A messianic meeting ; Koresh, shepherd of God ; The new age ; Dr. Teed's benefactresses ; Teed goes mental ; The Koreshan unity ; Messiah on the move ; Another New Jerusalem ; A test of immortality -- The glo-rays of God. Divine transformations ; The messenger ; Trouble in paradise ; The Harlem kingdom ; Promised lands ; Heaven trembles ; Righteous government ; Philadelphia -- Fall of the sky God. Jim Jones ; Divine aspirations ; The minister wanders ; California mystics ; New directions ; Going communal ; Peoples Temple hits the road ; Backlash ; Jonestown