[PDF] When Prophecy Never Fails eBook

Author : Diana G. Tumminia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199884242

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Of the approximately fifty percent of Americans who believe in UFOs, a fraction are devotees of one of the numerous UFO-based new religious movements. The Unarius Academy of Science is one of the oldest of these groups. Founded in 1954 by "Cosmic Visionaries" Ruth and Ernest Norman (also known, respectively, as Archangels Uriel and Raphiel), Unarius is devoted to teaching the all-encompassing Uranian Science. Combining elements of pop psychology, new age thought, and science fiction, the Science asks its students to channel messages from the infinitely intelligent Space Brothers and to heal themselves through the practice of past-life therapy. Unarians await the arrival of spaceships, manned by the Space Brothers, that will bring to earth advanced intergalactic technology that will benefit all humankind. Tumminia has been conducting research on Unarius for over a decade - attending meetings, inteviewing members, and studying official Unarian literature and videos. Here she offers an inside look at this fascinating movement. She pays particular attention to the ways Unarians adapt when their prophecies - and particularly their prediction that the Space Brothers would land in 2001 - don't materialize. This is the first in-depth study of any UFO religion.

Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher : Pinter & Martin Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1905177194

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In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of outlining a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and his colleagues infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world was only months away. How would these people feel when their prophecy remained unfulfilled? Would they admit the error of their prediction, or would they readjust their reality to make sense of the new circumstances?

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 6637 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0310294142

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The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher : Start Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :

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The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions.That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.

Author : Diana Tumminia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004222685

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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.

Author : Kenneth E. Hagin
Publisher : Faith Library Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1984-06
Category : Love
ISBN : 9780892762644

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When believers act according to the love of God shed abroad in their hearts, they can't fail -- because love never fails!

Author : Diana Tumminia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004215603

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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.

Author : Paul Boyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674252659

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Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God’s prophetic plan for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time. Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear and striking detail. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a computerized global economic order—Boyer shows how impressive feats of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular imagination in terms of the Bible’s apocalyptic works. Reflecting finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction might take—and the forms it might assume—in the post–Cold War era. The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture of prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More serves as a pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary American popular thought—a thorough and thoroughly fascinating index to its sources, its implications, and its enduring appeal.

Author : Merrill F. Unger
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825496950

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An excellent summary of the biblical content on speaking in tongues, from a non-charismatic position. Includes a helpful bibliography.