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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.]
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.]