Michael Barkun

Michael Barkun ( born April 8, 1938) is professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, New York.

Barkun writes about millenarianism, political extremism and (formerly ) on International Law. He is considered an expert in the Christian Identity movement.

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

Publications

  • Crucible of the millennium. The burned -over district of New York in the 1980s. Syrakuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y. 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, N.C. 1999, ISBN 0-8078-4638-4
  • Religious Violence and the Myth of Fundamentalism (2003)
  • Political scientist
  • University teachers (Syracuse University)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1938
  • Man
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