First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction 1 Unfulfilled Prophecies and Disappointed Messiahs 2 Prophecy Fails Again A Report of a Failure to Replicate 3 Prophetic Failure and Chiliastic Identity The Case of Jehovah's Witnesses 4 When Prophecies Fail A Theoretical Perspective on the Comparative Evidence 5 The Effects of Prophetic Disconfirmation of the Committed 6 Prophecy Continues to Fail A Japanese Sect 7 When the Bombs Drop Reactions to Disconfirmed Prophecy in a Millennial Sect 8 Spiritualization and Reaffirmation What Really Happens when Prophecy Fails 9 Had Prophecy Failed? Contrasting Perspectives of the Millerites and Shakers 10 How Do Movements Survive Failures of Prophecy? 11 It Separated the Wheat from the Chaff The 1975 Prophecy and Its Impact among Dutch Jehovah's Witnesses 12 Coping with Apocalypse in Canada Experiences of Endtime in La Mission de I'Esprit Saint and the Institute of Applied Metaphysics 13 When Festinger Fails Prophecy and the Watchtower 14 When Prophecy Is Not Validated Explaining the Unexpected in a Messianic Campaign 15 Fifteen Years of Failed Prophecy Coping with Cognitive Dissonance in a Baha'i Sect