How prophecy lives
5. Salvador Jimenez Murguia, When Prophets Fail to Fail: A Case Study of Yuko Chino, Chino Shoho, and the Pana-Wave Laboratory6. Lorne L. Dawson and Bradley C. Whitsel, Leadership and the Impact of Failed Prophecies on New Religious Movements: The Case of the Church Universal and Triumphant; 7. Stua...
| Summary: | 5. Salvador Jimenez Murguia, When Prophets Fail to Fail: A Case Study of Yuko Chino, Chino Shoho, and the Pana-Wave Laboratory6. Lorne L. Dawson and Bradley C. Whitsel, Leadership and the Impact of Failed Prophecies on New Religious Movements: The Case of the Church Universal and Triumphant; 7. Stuart A. Wright and Arthur L. Greil, Failed Prophecy and Group Demise: The Case of Chen Tao; 8. Diana G. Tumminia, A Square Theory in a Round Reality: Thoughts on the Study of the Unarius Prophecy; William H. Swatos, Jr., Afterword: The Sociology of Prophecy Sub Specie Æternitatis; Contributors. Occasioned by reflections on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Festinger et al.'s When Prophecy Fails, this book examines social scientific prophecy research in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the question of the dynamics that inspired people to engage actively in such end-time activities William H. Swatos, Jr., Preface: The Only Way into the Kingdom of God?; Diana G. Tumminia, Introduction: How Failure Succeeds; 1. Benton Johnson, Revisiting When Prophecy Fails; 2. Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Where Prophecy Lives: Psychological and Sociological Studies of Cognitive Dissonance; 3. Jon R. Stone, The Festinger Theory on Failed Prophecy and Dissonance: A Survey and Critique; 4. Lorne L. Dawson, Clearing the Underbrush: Moving beyond Festinger to a New Paradigm for the Study of Failed Prophecy. |
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| Item Description: | Publ. on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication "When prophecy fails" by Leon Festinger. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 9004222685 |