Title Heaven's gate : America's UFO religion / Benjamin E. Zeller ; foreword by Robert W. Balch.

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New York : NYU Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The cultural and religious origins of heaven's gate -- The spiritual quest and self-transformation: why people joined heaven's gate -- The religious worldview of heaven's gate -- Understanding heaven's gate's theology -- Religious practices in heaven's gate -- Why suicide?: closing heaven's gate -- Heaven's gate as an American religion.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.
Subject	Heaven's Gate (Organization)
	Heaven's Gate (Organization) (OCoLC)fst00727377
	Heaven's Gate Körperschaft.
	Cults -- United States.
	United States -- Religion.
	BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
	RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
	RELIGION -- General.
	Cults. (OCoLC)fst00884980
	Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	United States. (NL-LeOCL)078939836
	UFO-Bewegung.
Other Form:	Print version: Zeller, Benjamin E. Heaven's gate 9781479803811 (DLC) 2014020797 (OCoLC)876883367
Standard No.	40024316249
ISBN	9781479825394 (electronic bk.)
	1479825395 (electronic bk.)

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