'chiliastic' in The Making of the English Working Class | Bookmarker

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(adj) another term for millenarian (the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)

There is a sense in which any religion which places great emphasis on the after-life is the Chiliasm of the defeated and the hopeless.

—p.381 The Transforming Power of the Cross (350) by E.P. Thompson

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