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Expecting Armageddon : essential readings in failed prophecy / edited by Jon R. Stone.

Contributor(s): Stone, Jon R, 1959-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2000Description: x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 041592331X (pbk.); 0415923301 (alk. paper)Subject(s): End of the world | Prophecies | Eschatology | MillennialismDDC classification: 291.2/117 LOC classification: BL503 | .E97 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Jon R. Stone -- Unfulfilled prophecies and disappointed messiahs / Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter -- Prophecy fails again: a report of a failure to replicate / Jane Allyn Hardyck and Marcia Braden -- Prophetic failure and Chiliastic identity: the case of Jehovah's Witnesses / Joseph F. Zygmunt -- When prophecies fail: a theoretical perspective on the comparative evidence / Joseph F. Zygmunt -- The effects of prophetic disconfirmation of the committed / Neil Weiser -- Prophecy continues to fail: a Japanese sect / Takaaki Sanada and Edward Norbeck -- When the bombs drop: reactions to disconfirmed prophecy in a millennial sect / Robert W. Balch, Gwen Farnsworth, and Sue Wilkins -- Spiritualization and reaffirmation: what really happens when prophecy fails / J. Gordon Melton -- Had prophecy failed? Contrasting perspectives of the Millerites and Shakers / Lawrence Foster -- How do movements survive failures of prophecy? / Anthony B. van Fossen -- "It separated the wheat from the chaff." The "1975" prophecy and its impact among Dutch Jehovah's Witnesses / Richard Singelenberg -- Coping with apocalypse in Canada: experiences of endtime in La Mission de l'Esprit Saint and the Institute of Applied Metaphysics / Susan J. Palmer and Natalie Finn -- When Festinger fails: prophecy and the Watchtower / Matthew N. Schmalz -- When prophecy is not validated: explaining the unexpected in a messianic campaign / William Shaffir -- Fifteen years of failed prophecy: coping with cognitive dissonance in a Baha'i sect / Robert W. Balch ... [et al.]

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Jon R. Stone -- Unfulfilled prophecies and disappointed messiahs / Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter -- Prophecy fails again: a report of a failure to replicate / Jane Allyn Hardyck and Marcia Braden -- Prophetic failure and Chiliastic identity: the case of Jehovah's Witnesses / Joseph F. Zygmunt -- When prophecies fail: a theoretical perspective on the comparative evidence / Joseph F. Zygmunt -- The effects of prophetic disconfirmation of the committed / Neil Weiser -- Prophecy continues to fail: a Japanese sect / Takaaki Sanada and Edward Norbeck -- When the bombs drop: reactions to disconfirmed prophecy in a millennial sect / Robert W. Balch, Gwen Farnsworth, and Sue Wilkins -- Spiritualization and reaffirmation: what really happens when prophecy fails / J. Gordon Melton -- Had prophecy failed? Contrasting perspectives of the Millerites and Shakers / Lawrence Foster -- How do movements survive failures of prophecy? / Anthony B. van Fossen -- "It separated the wheat from the chaff." The "1975" prophecy and its impact among Dutch Jehovah's Witnesses / Richard Singelenberg -- Coping with apocalypse in Canada: experiences of endtime in La Mission de l'Esprit Saint and the Institute of Applied Metaphysics / Susan J. Palmer and Natalie Finn -- When Festinger fails: prophecy and the Watchtower / Matthew N. Schmalz -- When prophecy is not validated: explaining the unexpected in a messianic campaign / William Shaffir -- Fifteen years of failed prophecy: coping with cognitive dissonance in a Baha'i sect / Robert W. Balch ... [et al.]

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