When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group

When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-240

  Tumminia, Diana G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief; Channeling; Charisma; Contactee; Leon festinger; Millennial prophecy; Myths; Past life therapy; Social construction of reality; UFO

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749088224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195176758.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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