New religions in cyberspace: the promise and the perils of a new public space
Year: 2001
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The mass-suicide of thirty-nine members of Heaven’s Gate, on 26 March 1997, thrust the presence of new religions on the Internet into the public eye. Overnight the question of “cults in cyberspace’ became a social problem as the group’s extensive use of the Internet became known (Hoffman and Burke 1997). A wave of somewhat sensational feature stories rippled through the media. A The New York Times headline read “From porn to cults, the Net looks nasty,” while Newsweek called on the double en...
Source: OpenEdition (OpenEdition)
Author: Lorne L. Dawson
Language: French
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2904706574