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Doomsday cult
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Doomsday cult
Doomsday cult
is an expression used to describe groups who believe in
Apocalypticism
and
Millenarianism
, and can refer both to groups that prophesy
catastrophe
and destruction, and to those that attempt to bring it about. The expression was first used by sociologist
John Lofland
in his 1966 study of a group of members of the
Unification Church of the United States
in
California
,
Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith
. A classic study of a group with cataclysmic predictions had previously been performed by
Leon Festinger
and other researchers, and was published in his book
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World
.
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