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6 Index Adventism, 20 Millerite, 9 anti cult groups, 89 Ardener, Edwin cognitive dissonance, 2 3, 7 8, 13, 26, 37, 55 7, 70, 74, 88, 89, 91 concealment/proselytizing, 57 9, 91 Favret Saada, Jeanne 72, 77 8 flying saucer clubs, 19, 50 Group around Mrs Keech milieu, 18 21, 27, presuppositions, Jenkins, Philip, 19, 41 2 Keane, Webb, 71, 73, 74, 81, 82 language, 14, 15 of spirits, 31 4 language ideologies/models, 81 language of science, parallels, 70 2 sincerity, 72 5 language of secrecy, parallels, 77 9 words, silence, Lurie, Alison, 10, 89 McCloud, Sean, 41 4 method, rhetorical approach, 2 3, 63 6, 91 2 mutual misunderstanding, 85 9 Pelley, William Dudley, 34, 64 Press, prophecy/prediction, 13 16, 68, 80, 89 psychological approach, 3 4, 56, 63 6, 91 religion improvisatory, mainstream/fringe, 19 20, 41 5 metaphysical, 18, political imagination, 31, 34 5 science and non science, 27 31, secrecy, theory of, 59 63, 91 Seekers, 21 2, 25 6, 34, 38, 49, 60, 63 sign, 20, 54, 88 sign, secret, 24, 32, 40, 61, 64 social science and natural science, 2 3, 10 13, 56 7, 91 social scientists, 7 16, 50 6,

7 100 Index ethics, 54 hypothesis, 7 10 participation in object of study, 50 3, 85 9 presuppositions, 7 16 spirit mediums, 21 7, 68, 78 spirits, Spiritualism, 18 21, 48 9, 75, 92 Vallikivi, Laur, 74, 79, 81, 82