Doomsday cult
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title:
Doomsday cult
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A doomsday cult is a cult that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism, including both those that predict disaster and those that attempt to destroy the entire universe. Sociologist John Lofland coined the term doomsday cult in his 1966 study of a group of members belonging to the Unification Church of the United States: Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith. In 1958, Leon Festinger published a study of a group with cataclysmic predictions: When Pr
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Cult that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_cult
date created:
2005-10-16T09:45:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:52:10Z
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