Scaling Heaven's Gate
Individualism and Salvation in a New Religious Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20199506 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Zeller (0000-0002-4378-6088, corresponding author), Benjamin Ethan Zeller |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 75-102 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-6690 • E-ISSN: 1541-8480 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/nr.2006.10.2.75 |
| OpenAlex | W2044136130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article considers the new religious movement popularly known as Heaven's Gate within the context of American religious history, focusing on its soteriology (scheme of salvation) and the place of the individual within it. I argue that this contextualization reveals a movement that held unusual yet clearly identifiable religious beliefs reflecting popular religious subcultures and possessing clear historical antecedents. Specifically, within Heaven's Gate's soteriology one finds a synthesis of elements drawn from New Age thinking, Christian beliefs, and popular attitudes, and built upon assumptions of individualism and personal autonomy that pervade American religion. Rather than being an aberration of American religious history, Heaven's Gate was quintessentially American, albeit outside the religious mainstream
Aesthetics · Contextualization · Heaven · History of religions · Individualism · Mainstream · Political science · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |