Reading “New” Religious Movements Historically
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20200381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Fitzhenry Jones (0000-0001-8603-273X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 29-46 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| 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.2012.16.2.29 |
| OpenAlex | W2253797697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article surveys the relationship of the Heaven's Gate movement to the cultural context of science fiction while also engaging broader issues in the retrospective account of violence in new religious movements. Against theories that see violence as the consequence of social isolation and the escalating confusion of representation and reality, I argue that members of Heaven's Gate were not only “tapped in” to the reality outside the group but were markedly self-conscious about their engagement with that reality through the medium of science fiction. Using Heaven's Gate as an example, I propose that we read the concepts espoused by new religious movements in the past not in light of their fate but rather as imbedded in the historical realities in which they originally functioned in a meaningful and deliberate fashion
Aesthetics · Art · Confusion · Epistemology · Heaven · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |