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What does millenarianism mean?

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Noun
  1. A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity. [from 19th c.]
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Their commitment to improving the human lot through a fuller knowledge of nature was closely connected with their millenarianism.
Events could make me very sorry to have typed these words, but I see a bit of millenarianism in current thought on legal education.
In other words, the revival of religious millenarianism was a pre-patterned localised response to the social rifts and cultural crisis induced by French colonialism.
The two visions of the state and the non-state groups for the future of Timor-Leste share a common, often strong undercurrent of millenarianism.
Neither book does more than acknowledge the astonishingly rich literary heritage which millenarianism has inspired.
Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism.

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