How Prophecy Lives

Diana G. Tumminia received her Ph.D. in social psychology from UCLA. She is author of When Prophecy Never Fails (Oxford 2005) an intensive ethnographic study of the Uranius Academy of Science, and Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact (Syracuse 2007). She is Emerita Professor of Sociology at the University of California Long Beach.
William H. Swatos, Jr. is Executive Officer of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and of the Religious Research Association. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religious Inquiry Across the Disciplines at Baylor University and teaching at Augustana College (Illinois).