Podcast appearances and mentions of Benjamin E Zeller

Programa 28: Bacanal ultraterrestre. Grabado el día 5 de noviembre de 2020. 03:00 "La Puerta del Cielo", de Ana Llurba 28:46 "La Puerta del Cielo. Religión OVNI de los Estados Unidos de América", de Benjamin E. Zeller 01:08:50 "Pícnic extraterrestre", de Arkadi y Borís Strugatski 01:37:35 "Anomalía", de John Keel 01:55:05 "Las profecías del Mothman", de John Keel

Welcome to Checking Out, where Rachel & Hannah check in about what they’re checking out. Today we’re diving into that fancy Bildungsroman word! Instagram: @checkingoutpod Facebook: fb.me/checkingoutpod Email: checkingoutpod@gmail.com Classics Book Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/548140582641762/ Website: https://www.checkingoutpodcast.com/ Books mentioned this episode: "Antic Hay" by Aldous Huxley "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J.K. Rowling "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J.K. Rowling "Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion" by Benjamin E. Zeller "Sleeping Giants" by Sylvain Neuvel "The Toll" by Neal Shusterman "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes "The Island of Sea Women" by Lisa See "The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane" by Lisa See "The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement" by Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11" by Garrett M. Graff "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward "Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works" by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch "Unearthed" by Amie Kaufman "The Illuminae Files" by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff "Shattered Light Series" by Amie Kaufman "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt "Devotions" by Mary Oliver "Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts" by Jennie Allen "Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life" by Henry Cloud and John Townsend "Cinderella's Dress" by Shonna Slayton "Harry Potter Series" by J.K. Rowling "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "The Giver" by Lois Lowry "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros "Nobody is Ever Missing" by Catherine Lacey "Ulysses" by James Joyce "Ducks, Newburyport" by Lucy Ellmann "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins "Pretty Little Liars" by Sara Shepard --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/checkingout/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkingout/support

Episode 108: UFO’s Religion & Politics Benjamin E. Zeller is a researcher and teacher of religion in America. He focuses on religious currents that are new or alternative, including new religions, the religious engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people have with food. Heaven’s Gate is best known as the UFO group that ended with the mass suicides in San Diego in 1997 at the time of the Hale-Bopp comet. It made the news after the movement’s 39 active members committed mass suicide, and there was a bit of a media frenzy. The group is now defunct, though ex-members maintain their website and there are still a few believers out there. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Episode 108: UFO's Religion & Politics Benjamin E. Zeller is a researcher and teacher of religion in America. He focuses on religious currents that are new or alternative, including new religions, the religious engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people have with food. Heaven's Gate is best known as the UFO group that ended with the mass suicides in San Diego in 1997 at the time of the Hale-Bopp comet. It made the news after the movement's 39 active members committed mass suicide, and there was a bit of a media frenzy. The group is now defunct, though ex-members maintain their website and there are still a few believers out there.

In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination of over two decades of spiritual and social development for the members 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 this fascinating overview, Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven’s Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven’s Gate, Zeller draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture.The group emerged out of engagement with Evangelical Christianity, the New Age movement, science fiction and UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and it evolved in response to the religious quests of baby boomers, new religions of the counterculture, and the narcissistic pessimism of the 1990s. Thus, Heaven’s Gate not only reflects the context of its environment, but also reveals how those forces interacted in the form of a single religious body. In the only book-length study of Heaven’s Gate, Zeller traces the roots of the movement, examines its beliefs and practices, and tells the captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 20 year anniversary of one of the strangest tales in modern American religious history is quickly approaching. On March 26th, March 26, 1997 Marshall Herff Applewhite led a group of 39 devoted followers to their final destination. In their minds they were headed to a spaceship following the Hale-Bopp Comet where they would be taken and transformed into perfect angelic alien beings, a state in which they would live forever. We're joined by Benjamin E. Zeller, Religious Historian and Author of the book "Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion."