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

Timothy Jenkins
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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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Timothy Jenkins EAN: 9781137364456 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 294 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-06-21 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Social groups: clubs and societies, Occult studies

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      Timothy Jenkins is a Reader in Anthropology and Religion, University of Cambridge
      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Timothy Jenkins EAN: 9781137364456 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 294 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-06-21 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Social groups: clubs and societies, Occult studies

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

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