Books by Damian Thompson

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Looks at the members of one religious group with a strong apocalyptic tradition - Kensington Temple, a large Pentecostal church in London. This book attempts to understand how they reconcile doctrines of the end of the world with the demands of their everyday lives.

Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. This is the revised, updated edition in which Damian Thompson tackles subjects such as the millennium dome and the millennium bug;