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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > movements and organizations > Heaven's Gate
... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of religion > global religion > movements and organizations > Heaven's Gate

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Heaven's Gate  

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  • Heaven's Gate was a small new religious movement that combined UFO (unidentified flying object) lore with metaphysical and Christian themes and advocated the ascetic rejection of all “mammalian ways,” such as sexual relationships and ties with family members outside Heaven's Gate. The founders, Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), met in Houston in 1972 and in the years thereafter developed and taught a shifting and highly combinative theology, intermingling popular science fiction themes about extraterrestrial beings and spaceships with strains of New Age spirituality, theosophy, spiritualism, and end-times Christianity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Heaven's Gate]

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