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UFO Religions

Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135251592
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book UFO Religions written by Christopher Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectre of the UFO, as popularized by shows such as The X-Files, has brought an astonishing slant to the face of modern religious practice. But what motivates the fantastical and sometimes sinister beliefs of UFO worshippers? UFO Religions critically examines some of the fascinating issues surrounding UFO worship - abduction narratives, UFO-based interpretations of other religions, the growth of pseudo-sciences purporting to explain UFOs, and the responses of the core scientific community to such claims. Focusing on contemporary global UFO groups including the Raelian Movement, Heaven's Gate, Unarius and the Ansaaru Allah Community, it gives a clear profile of modern UFO controversies and beliefs.

Handbook of UFO Religions

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435530
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of UFO Religions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of UFO Religions, edited by scholar of new religions Benjamin E. Zeller, offers the most expansive and detailed study of the persistent, popular, and global phenomenon of religious engagements with ideas about extraterrestrial life.

UFO Religion

Author : Gregory L. Reece
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717634
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book UFO Religion written by Gregory L. Reece and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lines laid across the plain near the Peruvian site of Nazca have been explained as ancient roads or features of a long-forgotten religious calendar. So why did Erich von Daniken interpret these markings as the contours of a huge galactic spaceport? In his assessment of the uncanny and frequently eerie world of UFO-logy, Gregory L Reece travels deep into a mindset which believes that the gods of mythology were really visitors from the stars. Venturing into the Mojave Desert to watch the night skies for flying saucers; exploring Nevada's top-secret installation 'Area 51'; and visiting Roswell, famous site of a supposed saucer crash in 1947, the author's quest for the truth brings him more than he bargained for. He has his atomic structure recharged in a machine supposedly designed by extraterrestrial technology, encounters a whole galaxy of alien life-forms, and meets those who claim themselves to have been abducted by UFOs. Along the way, he tries to make sense both of the sinister 'Men in Black' and of lethal 'Tall Whites', deadly aliens who liquidate human beings without mercy. What is it about flying saucer culture that speaks to people with an apparently religious intensity and fervour? For those looking for the answers, "UFO Religion" is the definitive guide and handbook to one of the most extraordinary and compelling cults of our times.

American Cosmic

Author : D.W. Pasulka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190693509
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book American Cosmic written by D.W. Pasulka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences, and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.

Heaven's Gate

Author : Benjamin E. Zeller
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479881066
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Heaven's Gate written by Benjamin E. Zeller and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.

Heaven's Gate

Author : Benjamin E Zeller
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811130
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Heaven's Gate written by Benjamin E Zeller and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association The captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination of over two decades of spiritual and social development for the members of Heaven’s Gate. In this fascinating overview, Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven’s Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven’s Gate, Zeller draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture. The group emerged out of engagement with Evangelical Christianity, the New Age movement, science fiction and UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and it evolved in response to the religious quests of baby boomers, new religions of the counterculture, and the narcissistic pessimism of the 1990s. Thus, Heaven’s Gate not only reflects the context of its environment, but also reveals how those forces interacted in the form of a single religious body. In the only book-length study of Heaven’s Gate, Zeller traces the roots of the movement, examines its beliefs and practices, and tells the captivating story of its people.

Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The macabre mass suicide by adherents of the Heaven's Gate Cult in 1997 was shocking and difficult to comprehend for most outsiders. Their bizarre mindset, which mixed New Age religion with belief in extraterrestrial visitation, struck many as unique. In fact, as the contributors to this intriguing study show, the belief in alien contact has had religious overtones since the first purported sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in 1947. Moreover, the religious dimensions of the UFO phenomenon may be the key to understanding the widespread appeal of this modern craze. An expert in new religions, Professor James Lewis has here brought together twenty insightful articles that cover the many variations of UFO-based religions. What the contributors demonstrate is that there are persistent and salient themes underlying the diversity of beliefs centered on the UFO phenomenon. Hearkening back to theosophy, many groups have interpreted UFO sightings and alleged contacts as attempts by alien ambassadors from a more advanced civilization to bring spiritual enlightenment to Earth, where humanity is seen to be floundering in ignorance. The extraterrestrial message is usually channeled through a charismatic human leader, who then mobilizes a group around this New Age "revelation." The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions discusses the histories and beliefs of prominent UFO-based sects; looks at group dynamics and other sociological factors; and presents selections from the unusual literature of the various groups. This revealing and disturbing study shows that there is much more to the UFO phenomenon than simple curiosity about the possibility of life on other planets.

Aliens Adored

Author : Susan J. Palmer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813534763
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Aliens Adored written by Susan J. Palmer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens Adored is the first full length, in-depth look at the Raëlian movement, a fascinating new religion founded in the 1970s by the charismatic prophet, Raël. Born in France as Claude Vorilhon, the former race-car driver founded the religion after he experienced a visitation from the aliens (the "elohim") who, in his cosmology, created humans by cloning themselves. This pioneering study provides a thorough analysis of the movement, focusing on issues of sexuality, millenarianism, and the impact of the scientific worldview on religion and the environment. Raël's radical sexual ethics, his gnostic anthropocentrism, and shallow ecotheology offer us a mirror through which we see how our worldview has been shaped by the forces of globalization, postmodernism, and secular humanism.

Intimate Alien

Author : David J. Halperin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612120
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Alien written by David J. Halperin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin—but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them and to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, and as a species. In the 1960s, Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist, convinced that flying saucers were real and that it was his life's mission to solve their mystery. He would become a professor of religious studies, with traditions of heavenly journeys his specialty. With Intimate Alien, he looks back to explore what UFOs once meant to him as a boy growing up in a home haunted by death and what they still mean for millions, believers and deniers alike. From the prehistoric Balkans to the deserts of New Mexico, from the biblical visions of Ezekiel to modern abduction encounters, Intimate Alien traces the hidden story of the UFO. It's a human story from beginning to end, no less mysterious and fantastic for its earthliness. A collective cultural dream, UFOs transport us to the outer limits of that most alien yet intimate frontier, our own inner space.

The Gods Have Landed

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791423301
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book The Gods Have Landed written by James R. Lewis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive account of the religious dimensions of the UFO/flying saucer experience.

The Ufo Phenomenon and the Birth of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Religions

Author : Robert Iturralde
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Ufo Phenomenon and the Birth of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Religions written by Robert Iturralde and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces and explains the unsolved mysteries from unexplained archaeological findings to modern day supernatural religious phenomenon . The connection between the three major religious beliefs and the ufo phenomenon. Is deeply explored . The most famous supernatural mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle , Big Foot , the Jersey Devil and the men in black are explained as creations of the Ufo Phenomenon . The purpose of these supernatural is to make us wonder , fright ,hope , and deceive . Scientists are still looking for extraterrestrials In all the wrong places . Alien life has been with us for thousands of years in forms of the supernatural , religious phenomena , myths and legends and now in modern times as the ufo phenomenon . I show why the ufo phenomenon is the creator of the supernatural and religion .

UFOs: God's Chariots?

Author : Ted Peters
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601634684
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book UFOs: God's Chariots? written by Ted Peters and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are UFOs celestial saviors, coming to save Earth from self-destruction? Are UFOnauts advancing human evolution by birthing hybrid children? Is it time for a new “astrotheology” that enshrines the UFO phenomenon at the same level as the space sciences at NASA and SETI? UFOs: God’s Chariots? uncovers and exposes the clandestine spiritual dimensions within the UFO phenomenon. UFOs vibrate with transcendence, omniscience, perfection, and redemption. UFOs: God’s Chariots? delves deeply into government conspiracies, analyzes the newest models of close encounter interpretation, and reveals the results of The Peters ETI Religious Crisis Survey, in which self-identified believers were asked if making contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization would undermine our historic religious traditions. They said no. Does this mean we’re ready to share our pews with aliens?

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life

Author : Jörg Matthias Determann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755601300
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life written by Jörg Matthias Determann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries have produced highly imaginative accounts on one of the frontiers of knowledge: astrobiology, or the study of life in the universe. This book argues that the Islamic tradition has been generally supportive of conceptions of extra-terrestrial life, and in this engaging account, Jörg Matthias Determann provides a survey of Arabic, Bengali, Malay, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu texts and films, to show how scientists and artists in and from Muslim-majority countries have been at the forefront of the exciting search. Determann takes us to little-known dimensions of Muslim culture and religion, such as wildly popular adaptations of Star Wars and mysterious movements centred on UFOs. Repression is shown to have helped science fiction more than hurt it, with censorship encouraging authors to disguise criticism of contemporary politics by setting plots in future times and on distant planets. The book will be insightful for anyone looking to explore the science, culture and politics of the Muslim world and asks what the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would mean for one of the greatest faiths.

Legitimating New Religions

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533247
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Legitimating New Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. It contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. recognizing its status as a genuine religion and thus recognizing its right to exist. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies James Lewis explores the diversification of legitimation strategies of new religions as well as the tactics that their critics use to de-legitimate such groups. Cases include the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, Native American prophet religions, spiritualism, the Church of Christ-Scientist, Scientology, Church of Satan, Heaven's Gate, Unitarianism, Hindu reform movements and Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect. to the legitimation strategies deployed by established religions, the book sheds light on classic questions about the origin of all religions.

UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age

Author : David G. Robertson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350044989
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age written by David G. Robertson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures-novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce-the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive-it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion.

The Lure of the Edge

Author : Brenda Denzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224329
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Edge written by Brenda Denzler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly exploration of the "UFO movement" probes life on the fringes of modernity, tracing the fascinating links between science and religion implied by this philosophy.

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements

Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441198296
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements written by George D. Chryssides and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations. Several categories of new religions receive special attention, including African new religions, Japanese new religions, Mormons, and UFO religions. This guide to New Religious Movements and their critical study brings together 29 world-class international scholars, and serves as a resource to students and researchers. The volume highlights the current state of academic study in the field, and explores areas in which future research might develop. Clearly and accessibly organised to help users quickly locate key information and analysis, the book includes an A to Z of key terms, extensive guides to further resources, a comprehensive bibliography, and a timeline of major developments in the field such as the emergence of new groups, publications, legal decisions, and historical events.