When prophecy fails
Subtitle: a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world
By: by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter.
Series: Harper torchbooks -- TB1132
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Prophecies.; Prophéties.
First sentence: A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Table of Contents
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: Unfulfilled Prophecies and Disappointed Messiahs
pagenum: 3; label: II
title: Teachings and Prophecies from Outer Space
pagenum: 33; label: III
title: Spreading the Word on Earth
pagenum: 58; label: IV
title: The Long Wait for Orders
pagenum: 87; label: V
title: Four Days of Very Imminent Salvation
pagenum: 139; label: VI
title: An Unfulfilled Prophecy and an Elated Prophet
pagenum: 174; label: VII
title: Reaction to Disconfirmation
pagenum: 193; label: VIII
title: Alone and Dry
pagenum: 216; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 230; title: Methodological Appendix
pagenum: 237; title: Notes to Chapter I
pagenum: 253; title: Index
pagenum: 255