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(0)Benjamin E Zeller
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
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. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.