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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Society for Pentecostal Studies , Tulsa, OK, 16-18 March 2023
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- JCA Book Review by Barbara Hausmair: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka
- JCA Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City by Carolyn L. White
- JCA Book Reviews: Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. By Adrian Currie
- JCA Book Reviews: Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways Beneath London and Berlin. By Samuel Merrill
- JCA Book Reviews: Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard
- JCA Book Reviews: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett
- Lewis, A. David and Martin Lund, eds. Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $24.93 (paperback). by Aaron Ricker
- Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. By Emily Ogden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 268. $27.50 (paperback), $82.50 (hardcover). by Charles McCrary
Tag Archives: Raelians
Evangelizing the Ufologists
by Joseph Laycock Last week my friend Blake Smith, co-host of the podcast “Monstertalk,” e-mailed me about a new documentary called “Alien Intrusion.” The film, which promises to “unmask a deception” about extra-terrestrials, is based on a book by Gary … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Aetherius Society, Alien Intrusion, Alien Resistance, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Blake Smith, Budd Hopkins, Catherine Albanese, Christian demonology, Conrad Hyers, Creation Ministries International, David Jacobs, Enrico Fermi, FaithWorks, Fathom Events, Fermi paradox, Gary Bates, Hal Lindsey, Heaven’s Gate, J. Allen Hynek, Jacque Vallée, John Keel, John Mack, John Schneider, Johnny Hunt, Ken Ham, Monstertalk, Operation Trojan Horse, Planet Earth––2000 AD, Raelians, Southern Baptist Convention, The Creation Museum
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“New Religious Movements” as an Interpretive Category
Typically, when we think of New Religious Movements (NRMs), our gaze is directed to the relatively small number of traditions that cluster at the fringes of the contemporary religious landscape (e.g., the Church of Scientology, International Raelian Religion, Heaven’s Gate, … Continue reading