First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Jon R. Stoneis a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Latin for theIlliterati(1996) and Guide to the End of the World:Popular Eschatology in America(1993).