UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms
This paper looks at UFO religions, and considers the major factors that have played a role in the emergence and development of these alternative religious movements - from reports of close encounters of the third and fourth kinds and science fiction production, to alternative ideological elaboration...
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University of Belgrade
2010-04-01
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| description | This paper looks at UFO religions, and considers the major factors that have played a role in the emergence and development of these alternative religious movements - from reports of close encounters of the third and fourth kinds and science fiction production, to alternative ideological elaborations of contacts with extraterrestrial worlds. It looks at the basic theological premises, iconography, activities, and, more generally, cultural precepts of several UFO religious movements (the Aetherius Society, Heaven's Gate, Unarius, the Raelian movement). Attention is drawn to the religious connotations of UFO discourse, and its motifs of "otherness" and "supernaturalness". In addition, the relation between the roles and themes promoted within the contactee movement and the accounts of persons claiming to have been abducted by aliens is explored. Finally, the paper highlights the key existential questions and identifies the themes and motifs with which UFO religionists present themselves to the public. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-53fb5cfcfddb48ea8d4c49eef5cc30342022-12-21T19:46:37ZengUniversity of BelgradeEtnoantropološki Problemi0353-15892334-88012010-04-015210.21301/eap.v5i2.6UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main FormsDanijel Sinani0Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia This paper looks at UFO religions, and considers the major factors that have played a role in the emergence and development of these alternative religious movements - from reports of close encounters of the third and fourth kinds and science fiction production, to alternative ideological elaborations of contacts with extraterrestrial worlds. It looks at the basic theological premises, iconography, activities, and, more generally, cultural precepts of several UFO religious movements (the Aetherius Society, Heaven's Gate, Unarius, the Raelian movement). Attention is drawn to the religious connotations of UFO discourse, and its motifs of "otherness" and "supernaturalness". In addition, the relation between the roles and themes promoted within the contactee movement and the accounts of persons claiming to have been abducted by aliens is explored. Finally, the paper highlights the key existential questions and identifies the themes and motifs with which UFO religionists present themselves to the public.http://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/814UFOextraterrestrialsclose encountersUFO religionscontacteesalien abduction |
| spellingShingle | Danijel Sinani UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms Etnoantropološki Problemi UFO extraterrestrials close encounters UFO religions contactees alien abduction |
| title | UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms |
| title_full | UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms |
| title_fullStr | UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms |
| title_full_unstemmed | UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms |
| title_short | UFO Religions – Beginnings and Main Forms |
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| topic | UFO extraterrestrials close encounters UFO religions contactees alien abduction |
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