Richard Abanes
End-Time Visions
The Road to Armageddon?

"In a glut of recently published books both scholarly and popular about the millennium… End-Time Visions emerges as one of the very best researched as well as most readable works of the lot. More than any other author to date, Abanes has gone to the primary sources of some of the more bizarre end-time cults and sects in our society, bringing a unique and important perspective to the debate about why people believe in these chiliastic scenarios. If you buy one book on the subject, this is that book." — Michael Shermer, Skeptic Magazine, Adjunct Professor, Occidental College; author of Why People Believe Weird Things

"With a keen sense for separating fact from fabrication, Richard Abanes provides a cogent antidote to the groundless apocalyptic theories now being advanced by a host of prognosticators from numerous religious perspectives.… End-Time Visions is a much-needed tonic for society's current doomsday obsessions, which will almost certainly intensify due to an increase in end-time speculations as we approach the next millennium." — Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Denver Seminary; author of Unmasking the New Age

In End-Time Visions, Richard Abanes — an investigative reporter specializing in cults, the occult, world religions, and the new religious movement — takes a look at doomsday madness, its leaders, its history, its followers, and its dogma. Abanes is regarded by organizations as diverse as the FBI and the Simon Wiesenthal Center as an authority on the religious and political fringe. Now, in his first book for a general trade audience, he focuses on the gathering storm before the new millennium: society's ever-present obsession with the end of the world.

Abanes takes a broad historical as well as pan-national approach to his subject. He discusses the convoluted teachings of the David Koreshes — and the many less malevolent, but equally bizarre, cult leaders, as well as doomsday prophets that have sprung up in America and around the world.

The director of the Religious Information Center and a familiar voice on Christian radio, Abanes is himself a former cult member (The Way International) and the author of American Militias and Embraced by the Light and the Bible.

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