Expecting Armageddon
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Basic Faith
belief perseverance
Category=QRA
cognitive dissonance theory
comparative religion research
Crown Heights
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
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Ezekiel's Temple
fails
failure
Fallout Shelters
festinger
Festinger Hypothesis
Festinger's Model
Gentile Times
jehovah's
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jewish Messiah
La Mission De
leon
Lubavitch
Lubavitch Movement
Midnight Cry
millenarian
millennialism studies
prophecy
Prophecy Failure
prophecy's
prophetic
Prophetic Failure
Prophetic Fulfillment
psychological responses to failed predictions
Rebbe's Death
religious movements sociology
Sabbatai Zevi
sectarian adaptation
Shoghi Effendi
Specific Prophecies
Vice Versa
Watchtower Bible
Watchtower Movement
Watchtower Society
witnesses
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415923309
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, When Prophecy Fails. Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.
