\ Benjamin E. Zeller ; foreword by Robert W. Balch.
New York
: New York University Press
, [2014]
xvi, 287 p.
:ill.
Index
Bibliography
The cultural and religious origins of heaven's gate -- The spiritual quest and self-transformation: why people joined heaven's gate -- The religious worldview of heaven's gate -- Understanding heaven's gate's theology -- Religious practices in heaven's gate -- Why suicide?: closing heaven's gate -- Heaven's gate as an American religion.