Rationalizing Judgment Day: A Content Analysis of Harold Camping's Open Forum Program

This study presents a content analysis of Harold Camping's Open Forum radio program in the three weeks immediately following his failed prediction that May 21, 2011, would be Judgment Day. Following Dawson (1999), we examine the adaptive strategies Camping employed to manage the cognitive disso...

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Authors: Sarno, Charles (Author) ; Aponte, Rómulo (Author)
Contributors: Shestakofsky, Benjamin (Other) ; Shoemaker, Helen (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press [2015]
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 76, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-221
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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