Heaven's gate : America's UFO 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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zeller, Benjamin E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Heaven's Gate (Organization)
Heaven's Gate > Körperschaft
Cults > United States.
Cultes > États-Unis.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > General.
Cults
Religion
UFO-Bewegung
Kulter > Förenta staterna.
Sekter > Förenta staterna.
Religion > Förenta staterna.
11.98 other religions.
United States > Religion.
États-Unis > Religion.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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