Handbook of UFO Religions

Buch | Hardcover

560 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
9789004434370 (ISBN)

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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.

The Handbook of UFO Religions, edited by esteemed 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. 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.

Benjamin E. Zeller is Associate Professor and Chair of Religion at Lake Forest College. He studies North American religion, focusing on such topics as new religions, the religious engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people have with food. Most recently he is author of Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion (NYU Press), and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (Bloomsbury). Contributors are: Rafael Antunes Almeida, W. Michael Ashcraft, Stefano Bigliardi, Susannah Crockford, George D. Chryssides, Carole M. Cusack, Regis Dericquebourg, Holly Folk, David J. Halperin, Olav Hammer, Kelly E. Hayes, Joseph P. Laycock , Layne Little, Paul O. Myhre, Erik A. W. Östling, Susan J. Palmer, Lukas Pokorny, David G. Robertson, Mikael Rothstein, Christa Shusko, Karen Swartz, Diana Tumminia, Hugh B. Urban, and Franz Winter.

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Benjamin E. Zeller

1 Scholarship on UFO s and Religion: The First Seventy-Five Years

W. Michael Ashcraft

Part 1: Religious Engagement with UFO s

2 Vimānas and Hindu Ufology

Layne R. Little

3 Judaism and the UFO; with Emphasis on the Vision of Ezekiel

David J. Halperin

4 Unmasking the Alien Deception: Why Evangelicals Are Studying Ufology

Joseph P. Laycock

5 Aliens among Native Americans?

Paul O. Myhre

Part 2: Methods and Themes

6 Ancient Aliens

Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz

7 They Knew Too Much: The Entangled History of Conspiracy Theories, UFO s and New Religions

David G. Robertson

8 ‘I Figured That in My Dreams, I Remembered What Actually Happened’: On Abduction Narratives as Emergent Folklore

Erik A. W. Östling

9 ‘Focused Gatherings’?: Notes for a Study of a UFO Conference

Rafael Antunes Almeida

Part 3: Case Studies: Individual Proponents

10 A Martian God: Eleanor Kirk’s Extraterrestrial Epiphany in The Christ of the Red Planet

Christa Shusko

11 Of Polenta and Elohim: Mauro Biglino’s “Ancient Aliens” between Anti-Religion and New Religiosity

Stefano Bigliardi

12 Maitreya, Crop Circles, and the Age of Light: Benjamin Creme’s UFO Thought

Lukas Pokorny

13 Raymond W. Bernard, Hollow Earth, and UFO s

Holly Folk

Part 4: New UFO Religions Emerging from the American Context

14 Scientology

Hugh B. Urban

15 The United Nuwaubian Nation

Susan J. Palmer

16 Norman Paulsen and the Brotherhood of the Sun / Sunburst

Carole M. Cusack

17 Heaven’s Gate and Charismatic Leadership

George D. Chryssides

18 A Retrospective on the Unarius Academy of Science

Diana Tumminia

19 Starseeds

Susannah Crockford

part 5: New UFO Religions Emerging from the Global Context

20 Spirits of the Space Age: The Valley of the Dawn as a UFO Religion

Kelly E. Hayes

21 The Aetherius Society: A Ritual Perspective

Mikael Rothstein

22 Rael and the Raelians

Régis Dericquebourg

23 UFO s as Players in History: A Japanese New Religious Movement, ‘Spiritual Technology,’ and Ancient Astronauts

Franz Winter

24 East Asian UFO Religiosity

Lukas Pokorny

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion ; 20
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1055 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-13	9789004434370 / 9789004434370
Zustand	Neuware