Download or read book How Prophecy Lives written by Diana Tumminia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occasioned by reflections on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Festinger et al.'s When Prophecy Fails, this book examines social scientific prophecy research in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the question of the dynamics that inspired people to engage actively in such end-time activities.