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The History of a Modern Millennial Movement: The Southcottians
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A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found something extraordinary. For here, within the Ark, lived two members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many groups and their leaders who from the early 19th century onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and prospective mother of the Messiah (Shiloh), Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the first book to explore the religious thinking of all the Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class, and authority. Essential reading for scholars and students of religion and cultural studies as well as social history.

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Jane Shaw is Professor of Religious Studies and Dean for Religious Life, Stanford University, and was formerly Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Reader in Church History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Miracles in Enlightenment England (2006), Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers (2011) and A Practical Christianity (2012). She was Co-Director of the Oxford Prophecy Project with Christopher Rowland.

Philip Lockley was a graduate student and research assistant on the Oxford Prophecy Project. He has since been British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, and Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow in Theology at Trinity College, Oxford. He is the author of Visionary Religion and Radicalism in Early Industrial England: From Southcott to Socialism (2013) and editor of Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 16501850 (2016).

The millennial movement that the British prophet Joanna Southcott inspired at the turn of the nineteenth century was extraordinary. Usually viewed within the span of Southcotts own life, the group is here considered in its full scope, its continued reinvention across two centuries and its transoceanic reach to the United States and Australia. The product of a robust scholarly collective known as the Oxford Prophecy Project, this volume is a model of academic collaboration a combined archival and interpretive venture that places the Southcottians in the thick of nineteenth-century biblical exegesis and Protestant theology. Through this rich and meticulous history, a complex prophetic lineage well beyond Southcott herself is made vivid. This is an eschatological inheritance of surprising fecundity and variation.

Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St Louis

THE HISTORY OF A MODERN MILLENNIAL MOVEMENT

The Southcottians

Edited by

Jane Shaw and Philip Lockley

Published in 2017 by

I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd

London New York

www.ibtauris.com

Copyright individual chapters 2017 Alastair Lockhart, Philip Lockley, Deborah Madden, Matthew Niblett, Jane Shaw and Ruth Clayton Windscheffel

The right of Jane Shaw and Philip Lockley to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by the editors in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Every attempt has been made to gain permission for the use of the images in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in future editions.

References to websites were correct at the time of writing.

I.B.Tauris Studies in Prophecy, the Apocalypse and Millennialism 2

ISBN: 978 1 78453 846 0

eISBN: 978 1 78672 190 7

ePDF: 978 1 78673 190 6

A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

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For Christopher Rowland
friend, colleague, mentor

CONTENTS

Jane Shaw and Philip Lockley

Matthew Niblett

Philip Lockley

Deborah Madden

Philip Lockley

Ruth Clayton Windscheffel

Deborah Madden

Jane Shaw

Alastair Lockhart

Philip Lockley

LIST OF PLATES

Plate 1	Joanna Southcott. Engraving by her follower, William Sharp, 1812. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 2	Frontispiece from Southcotts first book of prophecies, published in 1801. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 3	Independent Southcottian chapels were established in several parts of England by 1812. Some, like this South London chapel, adopted the name Millennium Chapel (misspelled here). The issuing of tickets, with quarterly dates signed to demonstrate regular attendance, was an inheritance from Methodism. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 4	Garments and gifts prepared for the Shiloh child in 1814, now on display in the Panacea Museum, Bedford. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 5	The spectacular cradle commissioned for Shiloh in 1814, on display in the Panacea Museum, Bedford. Note the embroidered Hebrew Shiloh under the crown. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 6	Caricature of one of Southcotts successor prophets, John Wroe. The adoption of the Laws of Moses by Wroes Israelite Southcottians meant few graven images survive of him or his followers in his lifetime. Tameside MBC.
Plate 7	Mid-nineteenth-century bill-poster for an Israelite Preacher. John Wroes Southcottians gained notice by preaching in the open air, across the British Isles and English-speaking world. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 8	The Israelite Sanctuary, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, built by Wroes followers in the 1820s. Tameside MBC.
Plate 9	Christian Israelite Sanctuary, Fitzroy, Victoria one of several places of Wroeite worship built in Australia by the still-extant Christian Israelite Church. Image: Wikimedia Commons; author Cnwb; released into the public domain.
Plate 10	James Jershom Jezreels Tower on Chatham Hill, Kent, commenced in 1885, but never completed. It was finally demolished in 1961. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College, New York.
Plate 11	Michael Mills the controversial Canadian-born prophetic claimant photographed in the basement of Jezreels Tower in 1906. Mills is dressed in typical male Israelite attire. Panacea Charitable Trust.
Plate 12	Benjamin and Mary Purnell were Jezreelites in the early 1890s, who subsequently toured the American Midwest preaching their own claims to be the Shiloh and seventh prophet of the Southcottian Visitation. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College, New York.
Plate 13	From 1903, the Purnells promoted Benton Harbor, Michigan, as the gathering place for all Southcottians. In March 1905, 85 Australian Christian Israelites stepped ashore and processed to their new communal home, accompanied by a marching band. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College, New York.
Plates 14a and b	The Purnells Israelite House of David attracted hundreds of Jezreelite and Wroeite Southcottians from across North America and Australia. Pooling wealth and resources, the community soon built substantial buildings for accommodation and administration. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College, New York.
Plate 15	Eden Springs holiday park attracted thousands of visitors to the House of David in the 1920s and 1930s, offering opportunities for both commerce and conversions. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College, New York.
Plates 16a and b	Eden Springs attractions varied from a miniature railway to Vaudeville stage acts.

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