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Titolo |
Heaven's Gate : postmodernity and popular culture in a suicide group / / edited by George D. Chryssides |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChryssidesGeorge D. <1945-> |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Approaching Heaven's Gate / George D. Chryssides -- 2. '88 update : the UFO two and their crew / Marshall Herff Applewhite -- 3. Seekers and saucers : the role of the cultic milieu in joining a UFO cult / Robert W. Balch and David Taylor -- 4. Religious studies and "Heaven's Gate" : making the strange familiar and the familiar strange / Mark W. Muesse -- 5. Heaven's Gate : the dawning of a new religious movement / Patricia L. Goerman -- 6. Heaven's Gate : a study of religious obedience / Winston Davis -- 7. The devil at Heaven's Gate : rethinking the study of religion in the age of cyberspace / Hugh B. Urban -- 8. "A sometimes mysterious place" : Heaven's Gate and the manufactured crisis of the internet / Douglas E. Cowan -- 9. Scaling Heaven's Gate : individualism and salvation in a new religous movement / Benjamin Ethan Zeller -- 10. "Come on up, and I will show thee" : Heaven's Gate as a postmodern group / George D. Chryssides. |
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