@article{ref1,
title="Reconceptualising the human body: Heaven's Gate and the quest for divine transformation",
journal="Religion",
year="2005",
author="Raine, S.",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="98-117",
abstract="The mass suicide of the members of Heaven's Gate in 1997 stimulated much debate about the causes of so extreme an end to a new religious movement. Using primary source materials in conjunction with existing research, I present in this article an in-depth analysis of both the belief system and the behaviours of the members of the group. By using the sociology of the body and a psychobiography of the group leader, Marshall Applewhite, I show how ideas about the human body derived from individual psychopathology were translated into group belief and action. I argue that the relationship among these variables created the circumstances that led thirty-nine persons to believe that they were leaving this planet for a better existence in a parallel dimension. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0048-721X",
doi="10.1016/j.religion.2005.06.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.religion.2005.06.003"
}