| Description |
1 online resource (394 pages) |
| Contents |
PART I. INTRODUCTION -- Understanding UFO religions and abduction spiritualities / Christopher Partridge -- PART II. OBSERVING RELIGIONS -- Scientific creationism: a study of the Raëlian Church / George D. Chryssides -- When the archangel died: from revelation to routinisation of charisma in Unarius / Diana Tumminia -- Opening a channel to the stars: the origins and development of the Aetherius society / Simon G. Smith -- Legitimating suicide: Heaven's Gate and New Age ideology / James R. Lewis -- URANTIA book / Sarah Lewis -- United Nuwaubian nation of moors / Theodore Gabriel -- From extraterrestrials to ultraterrestrials: the evolution of the concept of Ashtar / Christopher Helland -- UFO faith and ufological discourses in Germany / Andreas Grünschlob -- Finnish UFO tradition, 1947-94 / Jaakko Närvä -- PART II. UNDERSTANDING NARRATIVES -- UFO religions and cargo cults / Garry W. Trompf -- Alien doubts: reading abduction narratives post-apocalyptically / Jodi Dean -- UFO beliefs as syncretistic components / Mikael Rothstein -- Apocalyptic and millenarian aspects of American UFOism / Daniel Wojcik -- Attitudes towards religion and science in the UFO movement in the United States / Brenda Denzler -- Jung on UFOs / Robert A. Segal -- Psychology of UFO phenomena / John A. Saliba |
| Summary |
'UFO Religions' is an essential introduction to UFO-based belief throughout the Western world. Composed entirely of new articles by leading international scholars, it critically examines some of the most fascinating issues surround UFO worship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Unidentified flying objects -- Religious aspects.
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Unidentified flying object cults.
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Cults.
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11.98 other religions.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- UFOs & Extraterrestrials.
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Cults
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Unidentified flying object cults
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Unidentified flying objects -- Religious aspects
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Ufo's.
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Sekten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Partridge, Christopher H. (Christopher Hugh), 1961-
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| ISBN |
9781135251604 |
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1135251606 |
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9780203866535 |
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0203866533 |
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