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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

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  • © 2013

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  1. Timothy Jenkins

    1. University of Cambridge, US

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Issue of the Scale of the Event—One Object or Three Parties?

    1. Introduction: The Issue of the Scale of the Event—One Object or Three Parties?

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 1-4

  3. The Presuppositions of the Various Parties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Social Scientists

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 6-16

    3. The Group and the Mediums

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 17-35

    4. The Press

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 36-45

  4. The Events and Their Rationale

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 46-46
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    2. The Sociology of Secrecy

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 47-66

    3. Language of Science, Language of Secrecy

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 67-83

    4. A Dialogue of the Deaf

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 84-89

    5. Gains

      • Timothy Jenkins
      Pages 90-93

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 94-100
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What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.

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  • University of Cambridge, US

    Timothy Jenkins

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Timothy Jenkins is a Reader in Anthropology and Religion, University of Cambridge

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