(Dis)Enchanted Ufology: The Boundaries of Science and Religion in MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network

This article examines how adherents within the self-styled scientific side of the UFO subculture implicitly challenge the assumed dichotomy between a rationalized disenchanted modern scientific worldview, and a non-rational religious other. After providing background on the origin of the UFO subcult...

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Subtitles:DisEnchanted Ufology
Enchanted Ufology
Main Author: Zeller, Benjamin E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 2021
In: Nova religio
Year: 2021, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 61-86
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mutual UFO Network / Unidentified flying object cults / Quasi-religion / Science / New religion / History 1947-2021
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AZ New religious movements
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Scientism
B reenchantment
B MUFON
B Ufology
B UFO
B Disenchantment
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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