(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...
| Autres titres: | DisEnchanted Ufology Enchanted Ufology |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Californiarnia Press
2021
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| Dans: |
Nova religio
Année: 2021, Volume: 25, Numéro: 2, Pages: 61-86 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Mutual UFO Network
/ Secte ufologique
/ Religion de substitution
/ Science
/ Nouvelles religions
/ Histoire 1947-2021
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Scientism
B reenchantment B Ovni B MUFON B Ufology B Disenchantment |
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| Résumé: | 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 subculture, ufology, and more explicitly religious forms of ufology, the article turns to the largest scientific ufological organization, MUFON, and the way in which participants within that organization engage and delineate social boundaries between religion, science, secularism, and spirituality. I argue that an enchanted ufology lurks just under the surface of this secular, scientific, rational disenchantment. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.61 |