Abstract
All millenarians require a god and a satan, a christ and an antichrist, the lamb and the serpent, the holy and the unholy, lightness and darkness, heaven and hell, and in-groups and out-groups. All of these concepts exemplify the dichotomized world inhabited by adherents to an apocalyptic faith. Such conceptualizations define, sustain, and legitimate their identities.
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Rinehart, J.F. (2006). Identity and Millenarian Violence. In: Apocalyptic Faith and Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403984630_6
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