\ Benjamin E. Zeller ; foreword by Robert W. Balch.
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New York
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: New York University Press
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, [2014]
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xvi, 287 p.
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:ill.
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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.