----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 11:54 AM Subject: Re: religious crackpots in public life, was Re: The heart of a leftist
> >SNIP<<
>
> I just finished Chip Berlet's essay, `Dances with Devils'. (see:
> www.publiceye.org/Apocalyptic/Dances_with_Devils_TOC.html)
>
> It's worth the slog for its historical documentation, but it doesn't
> go into a sociological understanding of what is occurring and
> re-recurring in these bizarre apocalyptic and millennial visionaries.
>
Gee, thanks, Chuck, but the article was first presented as:
Chip Berlet, "Mad as Hell: Right-wing Populism, Fascism, and Apocalyptic Millennialism," paper presented at the 14th World Congress of Sociology (XIVe Congrès Mondial de Sociologie), International Sociological Association, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1998.
And the roomful of sociologists there thought it was pretty good. Perhaps the problem is that you disagree with its arguments?
:-)
-Chip