(Dis)Enchanted Ufology: The Boundaries of Science and Religion in MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network
This article examines how adherents within the self-styled scientific side of the UFO subculture implicitly challenge the assumed dichotomy between a rationalized disenchanted modern scientific worldview, and a non-rational religious other. After providing background on the origin of the UFO subcult...
| Другие заглавия: | DisEnchanted Ufology Enchanted Ufology |
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| Главный автор: | |
| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
| Проверить наличие: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
2021
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| В: |
Nova religio
Год: 2021, Том: 25, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 61-86 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Mutual UFO Network
/ Религии НЛО
/ Замещение религии
/ Наука (мотив)
/ Новая религия (мотив)
/ История (мотив) 1947-2021
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AB Философия религии AZ Новая религия TK Новейшее время |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Scientism
B reenchantment B MUFON B Ufology B НЛО B Disenchantment |
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| Итог: | This article examines how adherents within the self-styled scientific side of the UFO subculture implicitly challenge the assumed dichotomy between a rationalized disenchanted modern scientific worldview, and a non-rational religious other. After providing background on the origin of the UFO subculture, ufology, and more explicitly religious forms of ufology, the article turns to the largest scientific ufological organization, MUFON, and the way in which participants within that organization engage and delineate social boundaries between religion, science, secularism, and spirituality. I argue that an enchanted ufology lurks just under the surface of this secular, scientific, rational disenchantment. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.61 |
