Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact
Extraterrestrials have been a common theme in popular culture, which is unsurprising given that a recent poll by the Associated Press estimated that 34 percent of people believe in unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Scholars have been trying to understand this phenomenon, and a number of them are r...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Review |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Année: 2009, Volume: 70, Numéro: 2, Pages: 200-201 |
| Compte rendu de: | Alien worlds (Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press, 2007) (Jindra, Ines W.)
Alien worlds (Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press, 2007) (Jindra, Ines W.) |
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| Résumé: | Extraterrestrials have been a common theme in popular culture, which is unsurprising given that a recent poll by the Associated Press estimated that 34 percent of people believe in unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Scholars have been trying to understand this phenomenon, and a number of them are represented in Alien Worlds, a collection of essays on “extraterrestrial contact” written by a wide array of international researchers and edited by Diana G. Tumminia, a sociologist and expert on contactee religions. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp021 |