From Sputnik to Spaceship Earth: American Catholics and the Space Age

This essay considers American Catholics who, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, reflected seriously on the religious significance of technology in general, and space science in particular. American Catholics, while no more immune from the belief that space science would create fundamental chang...

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Main Author: Osborne, Catherine R. 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [2015]
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 218-263
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Catholic church / Universe / Aerospace engineering / History 1950-1970
Further subjects:B space race
B Cold War
B Teilhard de Chardin
B Catholicism
B Astrotheology
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