Draft:Apocalypse Observed

Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan is a book about religious violence, written by John R. Hall with Philip D. Schuyler and Sylvaine Trinh. It was published in 2000 by Routledge. The book analyzes five new religious movements known for high profile acts of violence: the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, and Heaven's Gate.

The book received

Contents
The book analyzes five new religious movements known for high profile acts of violence: the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, and Heaven's Gate. The chapter on Aum Shinrikyo was written by Hall alongside Sylvaine Trinh, while the chapter on the Order of the Solar Temple was written with Philip D. Schuyler.

The chapter discussing Jonestown is based off a prior work of Hall's, Gone From the Promised Land.

Publication
The chapter on the Order of the Solar Temple, "The Mystical Apocalypse of the Solar Temple", was later reprinted in a 2006 book on the organization, The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death, edited by James R. Lewis.

Reception
Apocalypse Observed received

Thomas Robbins compared the book to How the Millennium Comes Violently (also about millennialist religious violence)