Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of FaithIn the years since Doomsday Cult was first published, much has happened to the movement. This enlarged edition brings us up to the present. Doomsday Cult analyzes the first five years in America (1959-1964) of an obscure end-of-the-world religion that went on to become nationally and internationally famous in the 1970s. The movement went from identification as a small and laughable bunch of kooks to public definition as a powerful and nefarious social force that had to be countered. Such a truly dramatic change in the status of a movement (and the activities of the movement itself) demands the question: Why and how did it happen? The change provides an important opportunity, moreover, to increase our understanding of the dynamics of social movements more generally: their resource mobilization, internal organization, strategies, citizen responses to them and the like. These topics are discussed in the Epilogue to the Enlarged Edition, added since the original edition was published. - Preface to the enlarged edition. |
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... world . " We share a world view , an order of things taken for granted about the attributes of objects , events , and human nature.1 This is a pecu- liar and intriguing feature of social life ; but even more interesting is the fact that ...
... world . " We share a world view , an order of things taken for granted about the attributes of objects , events , and human nature.1 This is a pecu- liar and intriguing feature of social life ; but even more interesting is the fact that ...
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... world . Their perimeter experience with conventional religious rhetoric , direct spirit manifestations , work happenings , and prospect reluc- tance will all further suggest that events in the ... world view . Some grasp 12 DOOMSDAY CULT.
... world . Their perimeter experience with conventional religious rhetoric , direct spirit manifestations , work happenings , and prospect reluc- tance will all further suggest that events in the ... world view . Some grasp 12 DOOMSDAY CULT.
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... world view to a set of more or less interested prospects . There was of course a desire to present the product in its best light , to maxi- mize attractive features and minimize unattractive ones . This concern was manifest in their ...
... world view to a set of more or less interested prospects . There was of course a desire to present the product in its best light , to maxi- mize attractive features and minimize unattractive ones . This concern was manifest in their ...
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