| Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy Contributor(s): Stone, Jon R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041592331X ISBN-13: 9780415923316 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Psychology Of Religion - Religion | Eschatology - Religion | Biblical Studies - Prophecy |
| Dewey: 291.175 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.09" W x 9.21" (1.06 lbs) 294 pages |