Here we have, finally, the first attempt to elucidate the millenarian experiences of Christian inspiration that, in addition to attesting to the diversity and consistency of these movements, denounces without mercy the prejudices that until today have blurred their meaning. The millenarian revolts, buried for a long time in oblivion, exert a fascination in our time on different intellectual specialties - history, sociology, anthropology and even literature - which, however, is not exempt from certain rejection. The authors set out to do justice to the modernity of the millenarian aspirations -compendium of the experience of all humanity-, from the "tumults" and "fears" that agitated cities and towns at the end of the Middle Ages to the movements that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in territories that the logic of the State and money had not yet colonized. An experience that positivist rationalism and vulgar materialism, travel companions inseparable from the political spirit, systematically hide for centuries. The millenarians wanted to realize the oldest dream of humanity: the Golden Age, a thousand years of total freedom. An aspiration that remains as valid today as yesterday. The authors, born in France in the twentieth century, have animated some of the most outstanding moments and places of contemporary social criticism, in which they promoted the debate on the essential issues of our time (industrial domestication, political misery , violence and isolation in everyday life, the despotism of money, etc.), always from a perspective opposed to spectacular para-criticism.