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Stephen D. O'Leary

An expert on Armageddon and apocalyptic sects

Associate Professor of Communication
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Contact at: (213) 740-3945 or soleary@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • the history, psychology and communication strategies of cults and new religious movements
  • millennial, apocalyptic and end-of-the-world beliefs and sects
  • cult violence
  • Armageddon
  • religious communication
  • religion on the Internet
  • churches and communication in the religious marketplace
  • impact of technology (television, radio and the Internet) on contemporary religious discourse
  • technology and culture
Additional Information:
    Author of Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric (1994) and The End of the World as We Knew It (forthcoming)
    Member, American Academy of Religion and National Communication Association
    Co-founder, Center for Millennial Studies

More:
Biographical information can be found at:

http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/OLearyS.aspx