This volume encompasses an array of material exploring the millennium phenomenon and the violent excitement it provokes.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jeffrey Kaplan; Part 1 Millennium-Related Security Reports; Chapter 2 Project Megiddo; Chapter 3 Doomsday Religious Movements; Chapter 4 Events at the End of the Millennium: Possible Implications for the Public Order in Jerusalem, Ehud Sprinzak, Ya'akov Ariel, Uri Ne'eman, Amnon Ramon; Part 2 Scholarly Analysis of The Three Millennium Reports; Chapter 5 Project Megiddo, the FBI and the Academic Community, Michael Barkun; Chapter 6 Questioning the Frame: The Canadian, Israeli and US Reports, Eugene V. Gallagher; Chapter 7 Ten Comments on Watching Closely the Gaps Between Beliefs and Actions, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; Part 3 Wider Issues in the Millennium Debate; Chapter 8 Spectres and Shadows: Aum Shinrikyô and the Road to Megiddo, Ian Reader; Chapter 9 Apocalypse - Not in Finland. Millenarianism and Expectations on the Eve of the Year 2000, Leena Malkki; Chapter 10 Cult and Anticult Totalism: Reciprocal Escalation and Violence, Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony; Part 4 The Medieval Context; Chapter 11 What Happens when Jesus Doesn't Come: Jewish and Christian Relations in Apocalyptic Time, Richard Landes; Chapter 12 Medieval Apocalypticism, Millennialism and Violence, E. Randolph Daniel;