The Universal Peace Federation or UPF is a United Nations-affiliated NGO launched in 2005 by the late Mun Sŏn-myŏng, self-proclaimed Messiah and founder of South Korean Unification Movement. considered as pinnacle Unificationist political interfaith engagement. Envisioned complement to and, eventually, future replacement Nations, globally operating spearheads millenarianism. This paper first tr...

In declaring President Trump mentally unfit to hold public office and a “mass killer,” Yale Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee violated the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics, which declares it unethical diagnose figure without personally examining him. Political scientist Bruce Gilley explains why she did it.

It has been something of a surprise for Europeans to realize that their advent in the Pacific was something less than a surprise. A number of accounts give the sense that their coming had been expected; that they were previously known beings “returned” or manifest in new form. Such ideas certainly fueled the millenarianism of cargo cults in Papua New Guinea. A further return was indicated in th...

Millenarian movements used to be regarded as native reactions enormous social disruptions caused by colonial intrusion, doomed failure and at best a step on the way more “modern” forms of ...