Heaven's Gate

Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group

By: George D. Chryssides (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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230 Pages

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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

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