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ISBN: 9780415223911 Year: 2008 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge
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religion --- South Asia --- culture --- Hinduism --- Jainism --- Buddhism --- Sikhism --- Zoroastrianism --- Judaism --- Christioanity --- Islam --- Baha'i --- practices --- values --- religious worldview
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ISBN: 1479811130 1479825395 9781479825394 9781479811137 9781479803811 1479803812 9781479881062 1479881066 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York
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2015 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.
Cults --- Heaven's Gate (Organization) --- Human Individual Metamorphosis (Organization) --- United States --- Religion. --- 298.9 --- 298.9 Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- the cultural and religious origins of Heaven's Gate --- spiritual quest --- self-transformation --- the religious worldview of Heaven's Gate --- Heaven's Gate's theology --- religous practices in Heaven's Gate --- suicide --- American religion
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ISBN: 9780205675111 Year: 2010 Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson Education, Inc.
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religion --- study of religion --- secularism --- religious history --- science and religion --- religious worldview --- religious pluralism --- Religious diversity --- indigenous religions --- Yoruba --- West-Africa --- Oglala Lakota --- Sioux --- North America --- Hinduism --- South Asia --- Jainism --- Theravada Buddhism --- Daoism --- Confucianism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Shinto --- Judaism --- Christianity --- Islam --- Sikhism --- new religious movements --- spirituality --- ecology --- Wicca --- African-American new religious movements --- Afro-Caribbean new religious movements --- Universalist new religious movements --- ethics --- economy --- war --- abortion --- euthanasia --- gender issues --- sexual orientation
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