Handbook of UFO Religions by Zeller, Ben

Handbook of UFO Religions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004434370)

Vendor: Ben Zeller
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Format: Hardcover
$253.00
$253.00
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Handbook of UFO Religions by Zeller, Ben

Handbook of UFO Religions

$253.00
Handbook of UFO Religions by Zeller, Ben

Handbook of UFO Religions

$253.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ben Zeller
ISBN-10: 9004434372
ISBN-13: 9789004434370
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2021
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2021
By Ben Zeller
By Ben Zeller
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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.

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