Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032099275
• ISBN13: 9781032099279
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"