Alien worlds : social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact / edited by Diana G. Tumminia.

• Part one: Contactee religions -- Hagiography and text in the Aetherius Society : aspects of the social construction of a religious leader / Mikael Rothstein -- The odyssey of Sister Thedra / Jerome Clark -- Galactic messenger! overview of the Universal Industrial Church of the New World Comforter / Diana G. Tumminia -- Presumed immanent : the Raëlians, UFO religions, and the postmodern condition / Bryan Sentes and Susan Palmer -- In the dreamtime of the saucer people : sense-making and interpretive boundaries in a contactee group / Diana G. Tumminia -- Part two: Abductees and contactees -- Toward an explanation of the "abduction epidemic" : the ritualization of alien abduction mythology in therapeutic settings / Georg M. Rønnevig -- Secondary beliefs and the alien abduction phenomenon / Benson Saler -- Alien abduction narratives and religious contexts / Scott R. Scribner -- Close encounters of the French kind : the saucerian construction of "contacts" and the controversy over its reality in France / Pierre Lagrange -- Part three: Myth, folklore, and media -- Consciousness, culture, and UFOs / Jacques Vallee -- Aliens from the cosmos : a discourse of contemporary UFO myths / Anna E. Kubiak -- All I ever want to be, I learned from playing Klingon : sex, honor, and cultural critique in Star Trek fandom / Jennifer E. Porter -- Part four: Ufological "science" and therapy -- Observations from archaeology and religious studies on first contact and ETI evidence / James F. Strange -- A confederacy of fact and faith : science and the sacred in UFO research / Anne Cross -- Ancient alien brothers, ancient terrestrial remains : archaeology or religion? / Pia Andersson -- The Raëlian creation myth and the art of cloning : reality or rhetoric? / Christopher Helland -- UFO abduction support groups : who are the members? / Christopher D. Bader.

Ämnesord

Möten människa-rymdvarelse  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Möten människa-rymdvarelse  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

Human-alien encounters  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Human-alien encounters  -- Religious aspects. (LCSH)

Alien abduction.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

BF2050 (LCC)

001.942 (DDC)

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