The varieties of the millennial experience -- Roosters and owls: on the dynamics of the apocalyptic curve -- Bats and turkeys: historians and recovering the millennial past -- Suicidal millennialism: Xhosa cattle-slaying (1856-1857 CE) -- Commodity millennialism: Papuan cargo cults (twentieth century) -- Imperial millennialism: the monotheist pharaoh Akhenaten (1360-1347 BCE) -- Bipolar millennialism: Taiping (The great peace, 1850-1864) -- Demotic millennialism: civil polities and the dismantling of the prime divider -- Democratic millennialism: French revolution (1789-1815 CE) -- Egalitarian millennialism: Marx the rooster and Marxism (nineteenth century CE) -- Totalitarian millennialism: the Bolshevik apocalypse (1917-1935 CE) -- Genocidal millennialism: Nazi paranoia -- Narcissistic millennialism: UFO cults (1946-2012? CE) -- Enraged millennialism: global Jihad (1400-1500 AH/1979-2076 CE).
