Out of the combination between the conception
of possible alternative ways of salvation,
alternative cultural and social orders,
and the structuring of time dimensions,
there emerged another element...
namely that of the utopian vision or visions,
of an alternative cultural and social order beyond any given place or time.
Such visions contain many of the millenarian and revivalist elements which can be found also in pagan religions, but they go beyond them by combining the elements with
a vision stressing the necessity to construct the mundane order
according to the precepts of the higher one,
with the search for an alternative "better" order beyond any given time and place...
eisenstadt
