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2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association The
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.
2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association The
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.
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