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Staying after Class: Memory and Materiality beyond Heaven’s Gate Report on the New Religious Movements Group Methods Meeting, 21 November 2014

In March 1997, Marshall Herff Applewhite (Do) and thirty-eight of his students made headlines when they exited their human bodies in a home in Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego County, California. While the class (as they called their group) is gone, the legacy of Heaven’s Gate remains on the Heaven’s Ga...

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Published in:	Nova religio 2017-05, Vol.20 (4), p.80-93
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