Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Approaching Heaven's Gate -- 2 '88 Update-The UFO Two and their Crew -- 3 Seekers and Saucers: The Role of the Cultic Milieu in Joining a UFO Cult -- 4 Reli...
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Approaching Heaven's Gate -- 2 '88 Update-The UFO Two and their Crew -- 3 Seekers and Saucers: The Role of the Cultic Milieu in Joining a UFO Cult -- 4 Religious Studies and "Heaven's Gate": Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange -- 5 Heaven's Gate: The Dawning of a New Religious Movement -- 6 Heaven's Gate: A Study of Religious Obedience -- 7 The Devil at Heaven's Gate: Rethinking the Study of Religion in the Age of Cyberspace 8 "A Sometimes Mysterious Place": Heaven's Gate and the Manufactured Crisis of the Internet -- 9 Scaling Heaven's Gate: Individualism and Salvation in a New Religious Movement -- 10 "Come on up, and I will show thee": Heaven's Gate as a Postmodern Group -- Postscript -- Appendix Chronological Table of Events Relating to Heaven's Gate -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 1351931199 |