Michael Barkun

Michael Barkun

Michael Barkun (born April 8, 1938 ) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University , New York .

Barkun writes on millenarianism , political extremism and (earlier) international law . He is considered an expert on the Christian identity movement .

For his work "Religion and the racist right", Prof. Barkun was awarded the Myers Center Award ; The laudation read literally "[for] ... outstanding work on intolerance in North America".

Publications

• Crucible of the millennium. The burned-over district of New York in the 1840s . Syrakuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1986, ISBN 0-8156-2371-2
• A culture of conspiracy. Apocalyptic visions in Contemporary America . UCP, Berkeley, Calif. 2003, ISBN 0-520-23805-2
• Disaster and the millennium . Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1974, ISBN 0-300-01725-1
• Law without sanctions. Order in primitive societies and the world community , Yale University New Haven, Conn. 1968
• Project Megiddo, the FBI, and the Academic Community (2002)
• Religion and the racist right. The origins of the Christian identity movement . University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill, NC 1994, ISBN 0-8078-4638-4 (hardcover) and paperback ( ISBN 0807844519 ). A revised edition was published in 1997 as hardcover ( ISBN 0807823287 ) and paperback ( ISBN 0807846384 ).
• Religious Violence and the Myth of Fundamentalism . In: Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 4, Heft 3 (2003), pp. 55–70.

Web links

• Michael Barkun at Syracuse University