Handbook of UFO Religions

Handbook of UFO Religions
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004435530

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.

Handbook of UFO Religions

Handbook of UFO Religions
Author: Benjamin E. Zeller
Publisher: Brill Handbooks on Contemporar
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004434370

The Handbook of UFO Religions, edited by esteemed new religions scholar 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. The present work considers not only new religions founded on ideas about extraterrestrials and UFOs, but how those within more mainstream religions have responded to the science, scientific speculation, and popular culture involving extraterrestrials, UFOs, and related concepts. Global in reach, it includes chapters considering South and East Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and draws on several interdisciplinary methods. In addition, the handbook traces connections between UFO religiosity and cultural patterns such as science and scientism, esoterism and occultism, millennialism, and popular culture.

UFO Religion

UFO Religion
Author: Gregory L. Reece
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-08-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

An irreverent look at our obsession with UFOs and little green men

UFO Religions

UFO Religions
Author: Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2003
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0415263239

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

Intimate Alien

Intimate Alien
Author: David J. Halperin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1503612120

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 Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
Author: James R. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190611529

The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground. In this all-new volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. T?llefsen bring together established and rising scholars to address an expanded range of topics, covering traditional religious studies topics such as "scripture," "charisma," and "ritual," while also applying new theoretical approaches to NRM topics. Other chapters cover understudied topics in the field, such as the developmental patterns of NRMs and subcultural considerations in the study of NRMs. The first part of this book examines NRMs from a social-scientific perspective, particularly that of sociology. In the second section, the primary factors that have put the study of NRMs on the map, controversy and conflict, are considered. The third section investigates common themes within the field of NRMs, while the fourth examines the approaches that religious studies researchers have taken to NRMs. As NRM Studies has grown, subfields such as Esotericism, New Age Studies, and neo-Pagan Studies have grown as distinct and individual areas of study, and the final section of the book investigates these emergent fields.

Find It Quick Handbook on Cults and New Religions

Find It Quick Handbook on Cults and New Religions
Author: Ron Rhodes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736935819

Were most cults and new religions simply passing fads of the late-twentieth century, or are some of them still growing today? What new sects have emerged, and what dangers do they present? How should Christians respond? Bible teacher and apologetics expert Ron Rhodes has cataloged 40 groups in this concise and easy-to-use handbook. Readers will appreciate Ron's thorough research and his reader-friendly style. His brief examination of each group includes a short history of the sect or new religion an explanation of the group's major doctrines the Christian apologetic response This informative guide includes a list of "Apologetic Power Points," which provides readers with a fast-paced summary of the foundational truths of biblical Christianity.

Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate
Author: Benjamin E. Zeller
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1479881066

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.

Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements

Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements
Author: Lukas Pokorny
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004362975

* This Handbook has won the ICAS Edited Volume Accolade 2019. Brill warmly congratulates editors Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter and their authors with this award. * A vibrant cauldron of new religious developments, East Asia (China/Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam) presents a fascinating arena of related research for scholars across disciplines. Edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter, the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements provides the first comprehensive and reliable guide to explore the vast East Asian new religious panorama. Penned by leading scholars in the field, the assembled contributions render the Handbook an invaluable resource for those interested in the crucial new religious actors and trajectories of the region.

Handbook of the Theosophical Current

Handbook of the Theosophical Current
Author: Olav Hammer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2013-01-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004235965

This title represents pioneering research into an important but under-researched current. The three sections in the book are devoted to the Theosophical Society, Theosophically influenced religious currents, and the interaction between Theosophy and surrounding culture.