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Heaven's gate : America's UFO religion / Benjamin E. Zeller ; foreword by Robert W. Balch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : NYU Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781479825394
  • 1479825395
  • 9781479811137
  • 1479811130
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heaven's gateDDC classification:
  • 299/.93 23
LOC classification:
  • BP605.H36 Z45 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.98
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Contents:
The cultural and religious origins of heaven's gate -- The spiritual quest and self-transformation: why people joined heaven's gate -- The religious worldview of heaven's gate -- Understanding heaven's gate's theology -- Religious practices in heaven's gate -- Why suicide?: closing heaven's gate -- Heaven's gate as an American religion.
Summary: In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cultural and religious origins of heaven's gate -- The spiritual quest and self-transformation: why people joined heaven's gate -- The religious worldview of heaven's gate -- Understanding heaven's gate's theology -- Religious practices in heaven's gate -- Why suicide?: closing heaven's gate -- Heaven's gate as an American religion.

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In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.

English.