UFOs and space aliens are visiting Earth?! Now it's time to get the facts!Did a "flying saucer" really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government conspiracy to hide its alien occupants in a secret facility? Is there truth behind the swirled crops phenomenon? Have humans been abducted by aliens?In an ......
An Anthropologist's Field Guide to Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
Are aliens even out there? If so, why do we assume we can imagine what they look like, or how they will relate humanity? Anthony Aveni provides us with a thoroughly entertaining analysis of our fasincation and speculation of what is out there. In this authoritative, accessible, and at times funny and irreverent work, distinguished ......
A voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin-but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a ......
One night in 1989, nine glowing objects appeared over an empty stretch of the Mojave desert in the south-western US - and turned a couple's quiet weekend into an unearthly nightmare of terror. Elise and Tom Gifford say they were held captive in their camper by nonhuman creatures, and through love and prayer were able to live through psychological ......
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, this title looks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television.
Looks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television. This work contends that the abduction phenomenon is symptomatic of a period during which people have come to feel divested of the ability to know what is true about themselves.
Written by an expert in new religions, this book contains twenty articles that cover the many variations of UFO-based religions. It aims to demonstrate that there are persistent and salient themes underlying the diversity of beliefs centred on the UFO phenomenon.
Discusses the popular iconography depicting alleged extraterrestrial (ET) visitors and the widespread appeal of this New Age craze as a mass cultural phenomenon. Placing the contemporary cultural moment in historical context, this book demonstrates how typical portrayals of aliens reflect long-running (even ancient) cultural motifs.
