INTRODUCTION // Introduction - Zdeněk Vojtíšek 7 // VARIETY OF MILLENNIALISM // Charisma, Volatility and Violence: Assessing the Role of Crises of Charismatic Authority in Precipitating Incidents of Millenarian Violence - John Walliss 9 // The End of the Wave: The before and after f Carl Calleman’s prophecies - Zuzana Marie Kostíčová 27 // The Grail Movement. The Never-Ending Story of Millennial Expectations - Zdeněk Vojtíšek 39 // The Forms of Millenarian Movements in Polynesia and their Role in the Struggle against Colonial Rule - Martina Bůčková 51 // Millenial Aspects of the Rastafari Movement - Lenka Philippová 61 // CHRISTIAN MILLENNIALISM // Some Eschatological Moments in the Early Christian Literature Written in the Bohemian Territory Since the 9th Century - Jan Blahoslav Lásek 71 // The Eschatological Hope in the Pre-Hussite and Early Hussite Period of the Bohemian Church History - Kamila Veverková 81 // The Millennialism in the Unfinished Work Clamores Eliae by J. A. Comenius - Petr Melmuk 91 // Apocalypticism and Millenarianism in Thessalonica: Paul the Apocalypticist and the Patterns of Apocalyptic Movements in Thessalonica - František Ábel 99 // Millennialism in The Book of Revelation - The Postmodern Perspective of Interpretation - Jiří Lukeš 123 // Millennialism in terms of Hermeticism - Marek Dluhoš 135 // MESSIANISM IN JUDAISM // The Constellation of Messianic Ideas in Jewish Mysticism - Moshe Idel 141 // Nothing New Under The Sun? Utopian Elements In Rabbi Judah Loew’s Netzach Yisrael - David Biernot 155 // Messianism in Israeli and Jewish Politics - Marek Čejka 163 // MILLENNIALISM IN ISLAM // Jesus’ Return in Islam: Problems and Prophecies - David Cook 169 // Millennialism in Sufi Perspective: The Case of Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya - Daniel Křížek 183 // The Messengers from the Hereafter. The End of the World from the Perspective of Arabic Dream-books - Bronislav Ostřanský 195 // CONTRIBUTORS 205