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

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.

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.

American Cosmic

American Cosmic
Author: D.W. Pasulka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190693509

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

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.

Aliens Adored

Aliens Adored
Author: Susan J. Palmer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780813534763

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

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.

When Prophecy Never Fails

When Prophecy Never Fails
Author: Diana G. Tumminia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2005-08-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199884242

Of the approximately fifty percent of Americans who believe in UFOs, a fraction are devotees of one of the numerous UFO-based new religious movements. The Unarius Academy of Science is one of the oldest of these groups. Founded in 1954 by "Cosmic Visionaries" Ruth and Ernest Norman (also known, respectively, as Archangels Uriel and Raphiel), Unarius is devoted to teaching the all-encompassing Uranian Science. Combining elements of pop psychology, new age thought, and science fiction, the Science asks its students to channel messages from the infinitely intelligent Space Brothers and to heal themselves through the practice of past-life therapy. Unarians await the arrival of spaceships, manned by the Space Brothers, that will bring to earth advanced intergalactic technology that will benefit all humankind. Tumminia has been conducting research on Unarius for over a decade - attending meetings, inteviewing members, and studying official Unarian literature and videos. Here she offers an inside look at this fascinating movement. She pays particular attention to the ways Unarians adapt when their prophecies - and particularly their prediction that the Space Brothers would land in 2001 - don't materialize. This is the first in-depth study of any UFO religion.

Paranormal America (second Edition)

Paranormal America (second Edition)
Author: Christopher D. Bader
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1479819654

"Based on extensive research and their own unique personal experiences, the authors reveal that a significant number of Americans hold these beliefs, and that for better or worse, we undoubtedly live in a paranormal America. Readers will join the authors as they participate in psychic and palm readings, and have their auras photographed, join a Bigfoot hunt, follow a group of celebrity ghost hunters as they investigate claims of a haunted classroom, and visit a support group for alien abductees."--Provided by publisher.

The Lure of the Edge

The Lure of the Edge
Author: Brenda Denzler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2001-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520224329

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.