چشم اندازي برجامعه شناسي اسطوره (با تأكيد بر اسطوره هزاره )

Myth as a form of knowledge extends in a special social condition. Hear one will examine sociologically myth through studying of a special type of myth, myth of millennium. It implies several motif: retrieval of golden age, emergence of saviour, occurrence of various disasters, fatalistic hope, metamorphosis and transmutation, demonization of outgroup. Author uses a constructionist position for explanatin of millenarian movements. Crisis and disaster bring about proper condition for emergence and extension of millenarian thought by challenging routine explanation of life.