This collection of essays examines responses to the Millennium and whether or not the year 2000 could be claimed as a specifically Christian time. It also considers how other religions reacted to the moment and what millennial celebrations reveal about religion in a secular age.

This collection of essays examines responses to the Millennium and whether or not the year 2000 could be claimed as a specifically Christian time. It also considers how other religions reacted to the moment and what millennial celebrations reveal about religion in a secular age.

ForewordPrefaceList of ContributorsPart One: Religion and Time1. Jubilee: A Biblical Perspective Philip R. Davies2. The Angelic Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2.6-7 Darrell D. Hannah3. Muslims and Time: Islam, Globalisation and Social Change at the Turn of the Millennium David Herbert4. Is There an East Asian Millennium? East Asian Conceptions of Time James H. Grayson5. A Threshold of Fear and of Hope: Religion, Society and the Dawn of the Millennium Michael Sadgrove6. Pre-Millennial Tensions: What Pentecostal Ministers Look Forward To William K. Kay7. Are You Suffering from PMT? The Impact of Millennial Time Damian ThompsonPart Two: Religion and Change8. Owls and Roosters: Y2K and Millennium's End Richard Landes9. 'Behold, I make all things new': History, Politics and the Challenge of the Millennium Andrew Bradstock10. Christianity and the Future of Europe Kenneth N. Medhurst11. Transforming Establishment: The Opportunity of a Millennium? David Jenkins12. The Future of Theology Vernon White13. Spirituality and Youth Sylvia Collins14. The Sacred Canopy: Time and Religion at the Greenwich Millennium Dome Martyn PercyAfterwordIndex