{"id":25346,"date":"2013-07-31T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25346"},"modified":"2013-07-31T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T21:18:16","slug":"elkus-interviews-charles-cameron-at-abu-muqawama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25346","title":{"rendered":"Elkus interviews Charles Cameron at Abu Muqawama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by\u00a0<strong>Mark Safranski<\/strong> a.k.a &#8220;<strong>zen<\/strong>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p>Longtime friend of <strong>ZP<\/strong>, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkingsecurity.tumblr.com\/\"><strong>Adam Elku<\/strong>s<\/a> interviews our own <a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/about\/people\/\"><strong>Charles Ca<\/strong><strong>meron<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at the highly regarded <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/blogs\/abumuqawama\">Abu Muqawama<\/a><\/strong> blog:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/blogs\/abumuqawama\/2013\/07\/interview-charles-cameron.html\">Interview Charles Cameron<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>[&#8230;.] \u00a0AE: How has the study of apocalyptic tropes and culture changed (if it has at all) since 9\/11 focused attention on radical Islamist movements?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CC: USC&#8217;s Stephen O&#8217;Leary was the first to study apocalyptic as rhetoric in his 1994\u00a0<em>Arguing the Apocalypse<\/em>, and joined BU&#8217;s Richard Landes in forming the (late, lamented) Center for Millennial Studies, which gave millennial scholars a platform to engage with one another. David Cook opened my eyes to Islamist messianism at CMS around 1998, and the publication of his two books (<em>Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature<\/em>), Tim Furnish&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Holiest Wars<\/em>\u00a0and J-P Filiu&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Apocalypse in Islam<\/em>\u00a0brought it to wider scholarly attention &#8212; while Landes&#8217; own encyclopedic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heaven-Earth-Varieties-Millennial-Experience\/dp\/0199753598\"><em>Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience<\/em><\/a>\u00a0gives a wide-angle view of the field in extraordinary detail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d say we&#8217;ve gone from brushing off apocalyptic as a superstitious irrelevance to an awareness that apocalyptic features strongly in Islamist narratives, both Shia and Sunni, over the past decade, but still tend to underestimate its significance within contemporary movements within American Christianity. When Harold Camping proclaimed the end of the world in 2011, he spent circa $100 million worldwide on warning ads, and reports suggest that hundreds of Hmong tribespeople in Vietnam lost their lives in clashes with the police after moving en masse to a mountain to await the rapture. Apocalyptic movements can have significant impact &#8212; cf. the Taiping Rebellion in China, which left 20 million or so dead in its wake.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/blogs\/abumuqawama\/2013\/07\/interview-charles-cameron.html\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by\u00a0Mark Safranski a.k.a &#8220;zen&#8220;] Longtime friend of ZP, \u00a0Adam Elkus interviews our own Charles Cameron\u00a0at the highly regarded Abu Muqawama blog: Interview Charles Cameron\u00a0 [&#8230;.] \u00a0AE: How has the study of apocalyptic tropes and culture changed (if it has at all) since 9\/11 focused attention on radical Islamist movements? 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