By Benjamin E. Zeller
2015 top e-book Award from the Communal stories organization
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For example, the group that we call Heaven’s Gate only used that name to refer to itself in its final days on Earth. ” Today we know this new religious movement as Heaven’s Gate—and I will continue to call it that—but its name often changed. ) The group’s organizational structure changed too. ) As they attracted followers and adherents, something odd happened: the group became even less organized. Researchers and journalists who studied the group in its first months discovered that its leaders often did not attend recruitment meetings, seldom traveled with the group, and exerted only minimal control over the organization of this inchoate religious movement.
59 Culpepper’s later dismissal of their motivations to the contrary, the Two’s ability to attract the attention, respect, and eventually adherence of a significant portion of this audience points to a special interpersonal quality that observers such as Culpepper routinely noted: charisma. The most influential definition of charisma derives from sociologist of religion Max Weber. 60 According to this classic approach to defining and delineating charisma, it is a characteristic innate to a person that allows him or her to effectively lead on the basis of what followers believe is the leader’s special abilities, nature, or features.
Like Nettles’s and Applewhite’s experiences before meeting, this former student was in the midst of a bad relationship and was seeking a higher truth to buttress and reaffirm her identity. Sharon decided after six days of meeting with the Two to accept their religious message, and like them she chose to abandon her family and become a religious wanderer. Leaving her wedding ring and notes for her family, Sharon began traveling and preaching the gospel of the Two. 48 The Two and Sharon canvassed the country, seeking to spread the word of the Two’s religious discoveries.
