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Author Pasulka, Diana Walsh, author.

Title American cosmic : UFOs, religions, technology / D.W. Pasulka.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  001.942 PASULKA    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  001.942 PASULKA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  001.9420 PAS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  001.942 PAS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  001.942 PAS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  001.942 PASULKA    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  001.942 PASULKA    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  001.942 PAS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials  001.942 PA    DUE 07-19-19 Billed
Description xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary "More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. In American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka examines the mechanisms that foster a thriving belief in extraterrestrial life. Her work takes her from Silicon Valley to the Vatican Secret Archive and reveals how media has supplanted religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-260) and index.
Contents A tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee -- The invisible Tyler D. -- James: master of the multiverse -- In the field : the war is virtual, the blood is real -- When Star Wars became real : the mechanisms of belief -- The material code : from the disembodied soul to the materiality of quantum information -- The human receiver : matter, information, energy... contact -- Real and imaginary : Tyler D.'s spiritual conversion in Rome -- The artifact.
Subject Unidentified flying objects -- Religious aspects.
Unidentified flying objects in popular culture.
Life on other planets -- Religious aspects.
Extraterrestrial beings in popular culture.
Extraterrestrial beings in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01903186
Life on other planets -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst01751543
Unidentified flying objects in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01161327
Unidentified flying objects -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst01161316
Other Form: Online version: Pasulka, Diana Walsh, author. American cosmic New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] 9780190693497 (DLC) 2018047070
ISBN 9780190692889 (hardcover)
019069288X (hardcover)
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