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Heaven's Gate George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)

Heaven's Gate By George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)

Heaven's Gate by George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)

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The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major violent incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s. Despite the major attention that Heaven's Gate attracted, there have been few scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven's Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some new writings from expert

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Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group by George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heaven's Gate group indicate that they believed they were stepping out of their 'physical containers' in order to ascend to a UFO that was arriving in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet. The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s, as the new millennium approached. Despite the major attention that Heaven's Gate attracted at the time of the suicides, there have been relatively few scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven's Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some new writings from experts in the field, and some original Heaven's Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought together under the editorship of George D. Chryssides.

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'Heaven's Gate is one of the most interesting new religious groups to emerge in the twentieth century. Virtually unknown to scholars prior to its communal suicide in 1997, it has become the focus of significant research and important analysis. This worthwhile collection of studies is the most comprehensive to date. I enthusiastically commend it to anyone interested in understanding, not just UFO religions, but also the emergence and significance of new religions and alternative spiritualities more generally.' Christopher Partridge, Lancaster University, UK '... fulfill[s] an important purpose in compiling some of the scholarly work that has been written on this very interesting religious group.' Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 'Chryssides' edited book provides a great reflection on the more than ten years following the Heaven's Gate suicides... the book provides a centralized source on Heaven's Gate, as well as excellent theoretical templates in critical analysis of how new religious groups are born and die.' Nova Religio 'This collection of articles is essential reading on Heaven's Gate and no one who hopes to understand this group should be without it.' Fieldwork in Religion

About George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)

George D. Chryssides is Research Fellow in Contemporary Religion at the University of Birmingham. He has written extensively on new religious movements: his books include The Advent of Sun Myung Moon (Macmillan, 1991), Exploring New Religions (Cassell, 1999), Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (Scarecrow Press, 2001) and A Reader in New Religious Movements (with Margaret Z. Wilkins, Continuum, 2006). He has contributed to numerous academic journals and edited collections.

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Approaching Heaven's Gate, George D. Chryssides; '88 update - the UFO Two and their crew: a brief synopsis, Marshall Herff Applewhite; Seekers and saucers: the role of the cultic milieu in joining a UFO cult, Robert W. Balch and David Taylor; Religious studies and 'heaven's gate': making the strange familiar and the familiar strange, Mark W. Muesse; Heaven's Gate: the dawning of a new religious movement, Patricia L. Goerman; Heaven's Gate: a study of religious obedience, Winston Davis; The Devil at Heaven's Gate: rethinking the study of religion in the age of cyberspace, Hugh B. Urban; 'A sometimes mysterious place': Heaven's Gate and the manufactured crisis of the internet, Douglas E. Cowan; Scaling Heaven's Gate individualism and salvation in a new religious movement, Benjamin Ethan Zeller; 'Come on up and I will show thee': Heaven's Gate as a post-modern group, George D. Chryssides; Postscript; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781032099279
9781032099279
1032099275
Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group by George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)
George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)
Routledge New Religions
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-06-30
228
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