LEADER 04021nam 2200649 450 001 9910824102603321 005 20230803205231.0 010 $a1-4798-1113-0 010 $a1-4798-2539-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479825394 035 $a(CKB)3710000000244662 035 $a(EBL)1820928 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001350092 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12565629 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001350092 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11287339 035 $a(PQKB)10810055 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820928 035 $a(DE-B1597)547670 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479825394 035 $a(OCoLC)891589634 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse86874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3422689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5516949 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1820928 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10936918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3422689 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000244662 100 $a20141003h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeaven's gate $eAmerica's UFO religion /$fBenjamin E. Zeller ; foreword by Robert W. Balch 210 1$aNew York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cNew York University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4798-8106-6 311 $a1-4798-0381-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of illustrations and tables --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The cultural and religious origins of heaven?s gate --$t2. The spiritual quest and self-transformation: why people joined heaven?s gate --$t3. The religious worldview of heaven?s gate --$t4. Understanding heaven?s gate?s theology --$t5. Religious practices in heaven?s gate --$t6. Why suicide?: closing heaven?s gate --$tAfterword: Heaven?s gate as an American religion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the author 330 $a2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies AssociationThe captivating story of the people of Heaven?s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO. 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. This act was the culmination of over two decades of spiritual and social development for the members of Heaven?s Gate.In this fascinating overview, Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven?s Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven?s Gate, Zeller draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture.The group emerged out of engagement with Evangelical Christianity, the New Age movement, science fiction and UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and it evolved in response to the religious quests of baby boomers, new religions of the counterculture, and the narcissistic pessimism of the 1990s. Thus, Heaven?s Gate not only reflects the context of its environment, but also reveals how those forces interacted in the form of a single religious body. In the only book-length study of Heaven?s Gate, Zeller traces the roots of the movement, examines its beliefs and practices, and tells the captivating story of its people. 606 $aCults$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xReligion 615 0$aCults 676 $a299/.93 700 $aZeller$b Benjamin E.$01034573 702 $aBalch$b Robert W. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824102603321 996 $aHeaven's gate$93917702 997 $aUNINA