Imagining the End: Visions of

Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion

 (Seattle,

WA, 



), and has since coedited, with Meir Shahar, 

Unruly God: Divinity and Society in

China

 

(Honolulu, 



).



. Weller, 

Resistance, Chaos, and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and

Tiananmen Square

 (Seattle, WA, 



), pp. 



–



.



. Ibid., pp. 



–



.



. One section of  Barend ter Haar’s article, ‘China’s Inner Demons: The Political Impact

of  the Demonological Paradigm’, in 

China Information

 XI, nos 



–



 (



): 



–



. This journal,

published in Holland, was unavailable to me as I was writing this chapter. Ter Haar kindly sent

me his final draft via email attachment. I am thus unable to provide page numbers to the

published version.



. Ter Haar’s most comprehensive treatment of  the demonological paradigm is in his 

Ritual

and Mythology of the Chinese Triads

, pp. 



–



; his most compact and accessible treatment is

‘Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society: Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society

Texts’, in David Ownby and Mary S. Heidhues (eds), 

‘Secret Societies’  Reconsidered: Perspectives

on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia

 (Armonk, NY, 



),

pp.



–



.



. The West was the traditional home of  saviour-gods in numerous rebel and messianic

traditions in China, and the Taipings greeted Lord Elgin, a British diplomat who visited Nanjing

in 



, as the messiah – much to Elgin’s consternation.



. Kuhn, ‘Origins of  the Taiping Vision’, p. 



.



. Kuhn, ‘The Taiping Rebellion’, p. 



.

14. Millennialism in Modern Iranian History



. Bruce Lincoln, ‘Notes Toward a Theory of  Religion and Revolution’, in B. Lincoln

(ed.), 

Religion, Rebellion, Revolution 

(London, 



), pp. 



–



.



. Eric J. Hobsbawm

, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 

(New York, 



).



. Karen E. Fields, 

Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa

 (Princeton, NJ, 



).



. Peter Smith, ‘Motif  Research: Peter Berger and the Baha'i Faith’, 

Religion

 



: 



–



.



. Mary Boyce, 

A History of Zoroastrianism

, 



 vols (Leiden, 



–



).



. John Walbridge ‘The Babi Uprising in Iran: Causes and Issues’, 

Iranian Studies

 



,

nos



–



 (Fall/Winter): 



–



.



. Said Amir Arjomand,