Heaven's Gate (eBook, PDF)

Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group
Redaktion: Chryssides, George D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major violent incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s. Despite the major attention that Heaven's Gate attracted, there have been 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 Heavens Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought together under the editorship of George Chryssides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351931199
• Artikelnr.: 49355758

Autorenporträt

George D. Chryssides is Research Fellow in Contemporary Religion at the University of Birmingham. He has written extensively on new religious movements: his books include The Advent of Sun Myung Moon (Macmillan, 1991), Exploring New Religions (Cassell, 1999), Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (Scarecrow Press, 2001) and A Reader in New Religious Movements (with Margaret Z. Wilkins, Continuum, 2006). He has contributed to numerous academic journals and edited collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Approaching Heaven's Gate, George D. Chryssides
'88 update - the UFO Two and their crew: a brief synopsis, Marshall Herff Applewhite
Seekers and saucers: the role of the cultic milieu in joining a UFO cult, Robert W. Balch and David Taylor
Religious studies and 'heaven's gate': making the strange familiar and the familiar strange, Mark W. Muesse
Heaven's Gate: the dawning of a new religious movement, Patricia L. Goerman
Heaven's Gate: a study of religious obedience, Winston Davis
The Devil at Heaven's Gate: rethinking the study of religion in the age of cyberspace, Hugh B. Urban
'A sometimes mysterious place': Heaven's Gate and the manufactured crisis of the internet, Douglas E. Cowan
Scaling Heaven's Gate individualism and salvation in a new religious movement, Benjamin Ethan Zeller
'Come on up and I will show thee': Heaven's Gate as a post-modern group, George D. Chryssides
Postscript
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.