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Encyclopedic sourcebook of UFO religions / edited by James R. Lewis.

Contributor(s): Lewis, James R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003Description: 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1573929646 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Unidentified flying object cults -- EncyclopediasDDC classification: 299/.93 LOC classification: BL65.U54 | E53 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"When we enter into my father's spacecraft": cargoistic hopes and millenarian cosmologies in new religious UFO movements / Andreas Gruenschloss -- Do-it-yourself deities and mail-order messiahs / Hilary Evans -- The rise and decline of the first-generation UFO contactees: a cognitive approach / Mikael Rothstein -- Signs of the secular times: the adaptive and transcendent function of UFOs in America / Robert E. Bartholomew -- From rumor to postmodern myth: a sociological study of the transformation of flying saucer rumor / Diana Tumminia -- The earth is a dangerous place: the worldview of the Aetherius Society / John A. Saliba -- The idea of the past, the reality of the present, and the construction of the future: millenniarianism in the Aetherius Society / Mikael Rothstein -- Cosmic intelligences and their terrestrial channel: a field report on the Aetherius society / Scott Scribner and Gregory Wheeler -- How prophecy never fails: interpretive reason in a flying saucer group / Diana Tumminia --
UFOs and religion: a case study of Unarius Academy of Science / John A. Saliba -- Heaven's Gate: implications for the study of commitment to new religions / Robert W. Balch and David Taylor -- UFOs, Heaven's Gate, and the theology of suicide / Ted Peters -- The Raelian apocalypse: playing with prophecy, appeasing the aliens, or pleasing the public? / Susan Palmer -- Institutionalized anticipation: architecture and religious symbolism in the Raelian religion / Mikael Rothstein -- News media and the religious use of UFOs: the case of Chen-Tao--true way / Ryan J. Cook -- April fools: the saucers will not be landing / Forrest Jackson -- UFO religions online: prophetic failures and the narrative techniques of the ground crew / Susan Palmer and Chris Helland -- UFOs, religion, and the statistics of belief / Charles A. Ziegler -- Extraterrestrial life and religion / Victoria Alexander -- Contact, religion, and the human future / Robert Ellwood.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Reference Reference John Bulow Campbell Library Reference BL65 .U54 E53 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 0182902208335

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"When we enter into my father's spacecraft": cargoistic hopes and millenarian cosmologies in new religious UFO movements / Andreas Gruenschloss -- Do-it-yourself deities and mail-order messiahs / Hilary Evans -- The rise and decline of the first-generation UFO contactees: a cognitive approach / Mikael Rothstein -- Signs of the secular times: the adaptive and transcendent function of UFOs in America / Robert E. Bartholomew -- From rumor to postmodern myth: a sociological study of the transformation of flying saucer rumor / Diana Tumminia -- The earth is a dangerous place: the worldview of the Aetherius Society / John A. Saliba -- The idea of the past, the reality of the present, and the construction of the future: millenniarianism in the Aetherius Society / Mikael Rothstein -- Cosmic intelligences and their terrestrial channel: a field report on the Aetherius society / Scott Scribner and Gregory Wheeler -- How prophecy never fails: interpretive reason in a flying saucer group / Diana Tumminia --

UFOs and religion: a case study of Unarius Academy of Science / John A. Saliba -- Heaven's Gate: implications for the study of commitment to new religions / Robert W. Balch and David Taylor -- UFOs, Heaven's Gate, and the theology of suicide / Ted Peters -- The Raelian apocalypse: playing with prophecy, appeasing the aliens, or pleasing the public? / Susan Palmer -- Institutionalized anticipation: architecture and religious symbolism in the Raelian religion / Mikael Rothstein -- News media and the religious use of UFOs: the case of Chen-Tao--true way / Ryan J. Cook -- April fools: the saucers will not be landing / Forrest Jackson -- UFO religions online: prophetic failures and the narrative techniques of the ground crew / Susan Palmer and Chris Helland -- UFOs, religion, and the statistics of belief / Charles A. Ziegler -- Extraterrestrial life and religion / Victoria Alexander -- Contact, religion, and the human future / Robert Ellwood.

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