Alien worlds: Social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact
Introduction / Diana G. Tumminia -- Part I: Contactee religions -- Hagiography and text in the aetherius society : aspects of the social construction of a religious leader / Mikael Rothstein -- The odyssey of Sister Thedra / Jerome Clark -- Galactic messenger : overview of the universal industrial c...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, N.Y
Syracuse University Press
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Reviews: | Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact (2009) (Jindra, Ines W.)
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| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Religion and politics
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| Further subjects: | B
Alien abduction
B Human-alien encounters Religious aspects B Human-alien encounters Social aspects |
| Summary: | Introduction / Diana G. Tumminia -- Part I: Contactee religions -- Hagiography and text in the aetherius society : aspects of the social construction of a religious leader / Mikael Rothstein -- The odyssey of Sister Thedra / Jerome Clark -- Galactic messenger : overview of the universal industrial church of the new world comforter / Diana G. Tumminia -- Presumed immanent : the ralians, UFO religions, and the postmodern condition /Bryan Sentes and Susan Palmer -- In the dreamtime of the saucer people : sense-making and interpretive boundaries in a contactee group / Diana G. Tumminia -- Part II: Abductees and contactees -- Toward an explanation of the "abduction epidemic" : the ritualization of alien abduction mythology in therapeutic settings / Georg M. Rnnevig -- Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon / Benson Saler -- Alien abduction narratives and religious contexts / Scott R. Scribner -- Close encounters of the french kind : the saucerian construction of "contacts" and the controversy over its reality in France / Pierre Lagrange -- Part III: Myth, folklore, and media -- Consciousness, culture, and UFOs / Jacques Vallee -- Aliens from the cosmos : a discourse of contemporary UFO myths / Anna E. Kubiak -- All I ever want to be, I learned from playing Klingon : sex, honor, and cultural critique in Star Trek fandom / Jennifer E. Porter -- Part IV: Ufological "science" and therapy -- Observations from archaeology and religious studies on first contact and ETI evidence / James F. Strange -- A confederacy of fact and faith : science and the sacred in UFO research / Anne Cross -- Ancient alien brothers, ancient terrestrial remains : archaeology or religion? / Pia Andersson -- The Ralian creation myth and the art of cloning : reality or rhetoric? / Christopher Helland -- Ufo abduction support groups : who are the members? / Christopher D. Bader |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0815608586 |