. Literally, millennialism (also millenarianism, chiliasm) refers to the belief, expressed in the book of Revelation, that Christ will establish a 1,000-year reign of the saints on earth before the Last Judgment. More broadly, millennialists expect a...

Anthropologists, sociologists and historians have extended the term ‘millenarianism’ from the Christian tradition to categorize religious movements worldwide that predict an impending, supernatural transformation and perfection of human...

This is an article on sociological Millennialism. You may be looking for the article on Christian Premillennialism. Millennialism (or chiliasm in Greek), from millennium (which is Latin) means "thousand years", is primarily a belief expressed in some...