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9780415923316: Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy
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ISBN 10: 041592331X ISBN 13: 9780415923316
Editorial: Routledge, 2000

Sinopsis

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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Jon R. Stone

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
041592331X
ISBN 13 
9780415923316
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
294
Editor
Stone Jon R.
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
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9780415923309: Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy

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ISBN 10:  0415923301 ISBN 13:  9780415923309
Editorial: Routledge, 2000
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