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American Cosmic

2019 Oxford University Press hardcover edition

STARTING FRAMEPsychological / Academic — religious studies of UFO culture · technology · and belief formation
EXPLORESMysticism & Spiritual Experience
ENGAGEMENT EFFORTModerate
HOW IT MAY HELPHelps orient

A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION

What this book explores

A religious-studies account of how UFO experience, secrecy, media, technology, and new forms of authority can generate worlds of meaning that resemble religious formation.

Good starting place if…

You want to understand why UFO narratives can become spiritually powerful without beginning with a verdict about whether the underlying claims are true.

Know before you begin…

The book follows participants and includes extraordinary claims. Its value here is interpretive: participation and testimony are not independent verification of non-human intelligence.