The main topic of the presente dissertation is Millenarism, considering both its roots and the interpretations the three Abrahamitic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam have given to it. Throug an historical analysis of the development of millenarism, we seek to identify the geographical places of its expansion and the relationship between earthly world and heavenly world. A particulary focus is given to the city of Jerusalem, which in millenarian exegesis represents the place of fulfillment of human history and is the threshold between earth and heaven, the gateway to the heavenly Jerusalem._x000D_
The return of millenarism in the postmodern era also requires an analysis of the transformations in the social, economic and ecological fields that favor the interpretation of the world in an apocalyptic key._x000D_
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Paolo Benedetti PhD_x000D_
geohistory and geoeconomy of the border regions (University of Trieste, Italy, coordinator prof. Gianfranco Battisti)_x000D_

Paolo Benedetti
Università degli studi di Trieste

 
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