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Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group
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Description

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.

Author Biography:

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. George D. Chryssides, Marshall Herff Applewhite, Robert W. Balch, David Taylor,, Mark W. Muesse, Patricia L. Goerman, Winston Davis, Hugh B. Urban, Douglas E. Cowan, Benjamin Ethan Zeller.
Release date NZ
May 28th, 2011
Contributor
  • Edited by George D. Chryssides
Pages
228
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
156x234x14
ISBN-13
9780754663744
Product ID
10880584

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