UFO Religions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Partridge, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

UFO Religions critically examines some of the fascinating issues surrounding UFO worship and gives a clear profile of modern UFO controversies and beliefs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135251598
• Artikelnr.: 38246103

Autorenporträt

Christopher Partridge

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword INTRODUCTION 1. Understanding UFO
Religions and Abduction Spiritualities PART ONE OBERSERVING RELIGIONS 2.
Scientific Creationism: A Study of the Raelian Church 3. When the Archangel
Died: From Revelation to Routinization of Charisma in Unarius 4. Opening a
channel to the stars: the Origins and Development of the Aethrius Society
5. Legitimating Suicide: Heaven's Gate and New Age Ideology 6. The URANTIA
Book 7. Ansaru Allah Community 8. From Extraterrestrials to
Ultraterrestrials: the Evolution of the concept of Ashtar 9. UFO Faith and
Ufological Discourses in Germany 10. The Finnish UFO Tradition, 1947-1994
PART TWO UNDERSTANDING NARRATIVES 11. UFO Religions as Cargo Cults 12.
Alien Doubts: Reading Abduction Narratives Post-apocalyptically 13. UFO
Beliefs as Syncretistic Components 14. Apocalyptic and Millenarian Aspects
of American UFOism 15. Attitudes Toward Religion and Science in the UFO
Movement in the United States 16. Jung on UFOs 17. The Psychology of UFO
Phenomena