# Catherine Wessinger Professor of religious studies at Loyola University New Orleans and a leading scholar of millennialism and new religious movements. She is best known for *How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate* (2000), which distinguishes "catastrophic" from "progressive" millennialism and analyzes how apocalyptic groups become violent. Her catastrophic/progressive millennialism framework is a standard analytical lens in the study of [[Doomsday Cults]]. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve an inbound wikilink. Expand with the catastrophic-vs-progressive millennialism typology.