How prophecy lives /
Taking its inspiration from the 50th anniversary of the publication of Festinger and others's 1956 seminal and controversial volume When Prophecy Fails , which introduced the notion of \'cognitive dissonance\' as an explanation for how a small group of flying saucer devotees handled t...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden :
Brill,
2011.
Series:
Religion and the Social Order
21.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223301.
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Call Number: BL633 .H69 2011
- Preliminary Material /
- Diana G. Tumminia and William H. Swatos
- Introduction: How Failure Succeeds /
- Diana G. Tumminia
- Revisiting When Prophecy Fails /
- Benton Johnson
- Where Prophecy Lives: Psychological and Sociological Studies of Cognitive Dissonance /
- Ralph W. Hood
- The Festinger Theory on Failed Prophecy and Dissonance: A Survey and Critique /
- Jon R. Stone
- Clearing the Underbrush: Moving beyond Festinger to a New Paradigm for the Study of Failed Prophecy /
- Lorne L. Dawson
- When Prophets Fail to Fail: A Case Study of Yuko Chino, Chino Shoho, and the Pana-Wave Laboratory /
- Salvador Jimenez Murguia
- Leadership and the Impact of Failed Prophecies on New Religious Movements: The Case of the Church Universal and Triumphant /
- Lorne L. Dawson and Bradley C. Whitsel
- Failed Prophecy and Group Demise: The Case of Chen Tao /
- Stuart A. Wright and Arthur L. Greil
- A Square Theory in a Round Reality: Thoughts on the Study of the Unarius Prophecy /
- Diana G. Tumminia
- The Sociology of Prophecy Sub Specie Æternitatis /
- William H. Swatos
- Contributors /
- Diana G. Tumminia and William H. Swatos.