Making Ends Meet. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the End of Times in Medieval Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
The conference Making Ends Meet took place from 24 to 26 September 2015 in Vienna, Austria. It was organized by Vincent Eltschinger, Directeur d’études/École Pratique des Hautes Études (Section des sciences religieuses, Paris) and Veronika Wieser, VISCOM co-ordinator/ researcher, Institute for Medieval Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in line with the SFB F 42 VISCOM (›Visions of Community. Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, 400-1600 CE‹).
Keywords: rebirth, demons, Gog and Magog, Paradise, Last Judgment, prophet, empire, computes, millennialism, Eschatology