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. In American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka examines the mechanisms that foster a thriving belief in extraterrestrial life. Her work takes her from Silicon Valley to the Vatican Secret Archive and reveals how media has supplanted religion as a cultural authority that offers believersanswers about non-human intelligent life.
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. In American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka examines the mechanisms that foster a thriving belief in extraterrestrial life. Her work takes her from Silicon Valley to the Vatican Secret Archive and reveals how media has supplanted religion as a cultural authority that offers believersanswers about non-human intelligent life.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
D.W. Pasulka is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Her current research focuses on religious and supernatural belief and practice and its connections to digital technologies and environments. She is the author and co-editor of numerous books and essays. She is also a history and religion consultant for movies and television, including The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring II (2016). She has been the principal investigator for numerous grants, including the Federal grant program Teaching American History, which supported middle school and high school teachers in their efforts to teach religious and American history to public school students throughout North Carolina.
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* Preface- A Tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee * Acknowledgements * Introduction * Chapter 1- The Invisible Tyler D. * Chapter 2- James: Master of the Multiverse * Chapter 3- Scott Browne's In the Field: The War is Virtual, The Blood is Real * Chapter 4- When Star Wars Became Real: The Mechanisms of Belief * Chapter 5- The Material Code: Moving Beyond the Disembodied Soul to the Materiality of Quantum Information * Chapter 6- The Human Receiver: Matter, Information, Energy... Contact * Chapter Seven- Suspended in Space: Levitating, Bilocating Saints and Tyler D.'s Spiritual Conversion in Rome * Conclusion- The Artifact
* Preface- A Tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee * Acknowledgements * Introduction * Chapter 1- The Invisible Tyler D. * Chapter 2- James: Master of the Multiverse * Chapter 3- Scott Browne's In the Field: The War is Virtual, The Blood is Real * Chapter 4- When Star Wars Became Real: The Mechanisms of Belief * Chapter 5- The Material Code: Moving Beyond the Disembodied Soul to the Materiality of Quantum Information * Chapter 6- The Human Receiver: Matter, Information, Energy... Contact * Chapter Seven- Suspended in Space: Levitating, Bilocating Saints and Tyler D.'s Spiritual Conversion in Rome * Conclusion- The Artifact
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