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Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Millenarian Movements.

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Millenarian movements await a salvation that is total, imminent, this-worldly and collective, brought about by supernatural agency. The word comes from the thousand-year reign foretold in the Book of Revelation, but sociology applies it to any movement, tribal or peasant, that expects a sudden and complete overturning of the existing order. Yonina Talmon's comparative work…

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