Word: millenarianism
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...generally define terrorism as the indiscriminate use of violence against civilians by actors who aren't part of a nation's formal machinery of state. Within that field, it's possible to identify two subcategories. "Political" terrorists have an identifiable goal, which may be precisely that of mainstream politicians. "Millenarian" terrorists are different. They have no political agenda and owe their allegiance not to any institutions or geographical expressions on earth but to a higher authority in heaven. The classic examples of the first are the armed wings of national liberation movements, like the Irish Republican Army, Israel's Stern...
...that the two types of terrorism lead to very different outcomes. Because the first form exists in a political framework, it is always possible - given time, patience and compromise - to absorb it into a conventional political dialogue. This is precisely what happened in both Ireland and South Africa. With millenarian terrorism, however, a political approach is a waste of time. Groups such as al-Qaeda do not engage in peacemaking...
...House under G.O.P. control and earned the fealty of his troops, who often shout, "Coach! Coach!" when he walks into their caucus meetings. Hastert's keen sense of the commonplace favors and bills his members need to survive the next election is in contrast to with Gingrich's millenarian frothings. "Newt had a vision for the year 2020," says South Carolina Representative Lindsey Graham. "Denny is thinking about next Tuesday." A conservative, Hastert has also done what DeLay and Armey could not: convinced pivotal G.O.P. moderates that he cares about them too. And he should. In a closely divided House...
...there is something difficult to grasp about Blake: an obsessive personal mythology that is intensely vivid and yet hard to see as a whole. As he put it, he had to devise his own system or be enslaved by another's. Its roots are Puritan, dissenting, millenarian--and very English; Blake never traveled abroad. But English antiquity and especially English medievalism mattered enormously to him. They were the meat and milk of his imagination. Even if we didn't know that James Basire, the engraver to whom his father apprenticed him, had sent him to study and draw the monuments...
...dedicates herself to confirming and recapturing this transcendent moment. She first gives Christianity a whirl, attending services at the Greater Love Salvation Church, "a Pentecostal millenarian revivalist congregation." And although she accepts Jesus as her Saviour, she rather quickly grows annoyed at what she sees as his unresponsiveness: "Lord, sometimes I feel like you really aren't listening." Next she hitches up with a group of Buddhists but soon finds the regimen and food unpalatable, "because it seems like there's a fine line between purification and starving to death...