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Cargando... Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religionpor Benjamin E. Zeller
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is definitely informative! Less true crime and more academic religious exploration. I learned so much about Heaven's Gate as a religion and the culture it emerged out of. However, because it's academic, it could be extremely difficult to read/understand. I enjoyed learning, but probably won't revisit. ( ) This is a fairly scholarly work, but I found it easy enough to read. It does contain a sort of chronological history of the group, but mostly it's about the actual beliefs of the movement and the influences on them. I was convinced by his argument that they were actually a variation on your standard premillennial Protestant American Christianity, just filtered through an ufology hermeneutic--an assertion I found farfetched at first, but he was very thorough in examining the various influences on the group. I really appreciated the way the author treated Heaven's Gate as a religion on its own terms--really diving into its worldview and showing how the belief system makes sense from the inside. He never treated the members like a bunch of brainwashed or mentally ill people he could dismiss, but instead really tried to understand what it was about the religious teachings and practice of Heaven's Gate that drew them in, and also why the group suicide was, in the end, inevitable. He managed to be compassionate without ever endorsing their beliefs. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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