of the Global North. It did not, of course, originate there. Rather, worldviews centering on a literal belief in an imminent judgment and deliverance of the world occur across history and cultures among groups and movements that anthropologists term “millennial” (or “millenarian”). (For a discussion of millennialism, see Grabbe 1989 and Cook 1995a.) Ezekiel 40–48, the vision of the utopian temple and land, is filled with spatial organization and territorial rhetoric. The focus on spatiality and creation-order
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