Heaven's Gate : postmodernity and popular culture in a suicide group / / edited by George D. Chryssides

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 pages)
• Disciplina: 299.93
• Altri autori: ChryssidesGeorge D. <1945->
• Note generali: "First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Heaven's Gate
• ISBN: 1-315-25348-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154568503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ashgate new religions.