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100 1 $aKaplan, Jeffrey.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020023189
245 10 $aRadical religion in America :$bmillenarian movements from the far right to the children of Noah /$cJeffrey Kaplan.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSyracuse, N.Y. :$bSyracuse University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9701
300 $axviii, 245 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rMichael Barkun --$g1.$tThe American Millennial Community --$g2.$tChristian Identity --$g3.$tOdinism and Asatru --$g4.$tThe B'nai Noah --$g5.$tThe Anti-Cult Movement/Watchdog Groups --$g6.$tA Confederacy of Seekers?
520 $aJeffrey Kaplan takes a provocative look at three religiously based apocalyptic movements, their radical doctrines, and their rejection of mainstream American culture: the Christian Identity, whose members believe they are the true Aryan descendants of Israeli biblical tribes; Odinism and the related Asatru movement, which attempts to reconstruct the practices of Norse-Germanic paganism; and B'nai Noah, the anti-Christian movements in favor of God's covenant with Noah.
520 8 $aKaplan describes how the groups interact, probes the internal organizational friction, and shows how watchdog groups like the Anti-Defamation League, Klanwatch, and Cult Awareness Network monitor these groups' activities.
520 8 $aHe argues that violence takes several forms, which at its apex may culminate in millenarian violence, but maintains that right-wing violence is primarily an impulsive act carried out by part-time revolutionaries against convenient targets or against that which represents change in the status quo.
520 8 $aThought-provoking in his analysis, Kaplan defines the primary issue for current debate: how sectarian organizations, far outside the mainstream of American religious life, pose a significant challenge to prevailing conceptions of constitutional rights. He contends that the cost of denying such protection to even the most antagonistic and despised groups is, in the end, too high a price for a free society to pay.
650 0 $aMillennialism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCults$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034742
651 0 $aUnited States$xReligion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
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