Benjamin E Zeller: 2 books
Heaven's Gate
America's UFO Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association
The captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO.
In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho...
Prophets and Protons
New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
By the twentieth century, science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions’ understandings of science. The...