The importance of millennialism for the early modern and modern world is discussed in Ruth H. Bloch, Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756–1800 (1985, reissued 1988); Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990); Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution (1993); David S. Katz and Richard H. Popkin, Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (1999); Vittorio Lanternari, The Religions of the Oppressed: A Study of Modern Messianic Cults (1963, reissued 1965; originally published in Italian, 1960); David Noble, The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (1997, reissued 1999); Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676 (1973, reissued with corrections 1975; originally published in Hebrew, 1957); Hillel Schwartz, Century’s End: An Orientation Manual Toward the Year 2000, rev. and abridged ed. (1996); J.L. Talmon, The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy (also published as The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, 1952, reissued 1986); Daniel Wojcik, The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America (1997); and Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964, reissued 1991). Non-Christian millennialism
For the influence of millennial thought on Islamic and non-Christian cultures, see Michael Adas, Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements Against the European Colonial Order (1979, reissued 1987); David Cook, “Moral Apocalyptic in Islam,” Studia Islamica, 86(2):37–69 (August 1997); Patricia Crone and Michael Cook, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World (1977, reissued 1980); Weston La Barre, The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion (1970, reissued 1990); Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (1976); and Jonathan D. Spence, God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (1996).