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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Pasulka, Diana Walsh
Titre(s) : American cosmic [Texte imprimé] : UFOs, religion, technology / D. W. Pasulka
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-269 p.) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [245]-257. Index
"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" ; "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. [This book] examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief
system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional
religions. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed
successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception
that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief
in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like
The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media
by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing
question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences, and argues that the media
is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about
non-human intelligent life."--Dust jacket
Sujet(s) : Ovnis -- Dans la culture populaire -- États-Unis
Ovnis -- Dans les médias -- États-Unis
Ovnis -- Religion -- États-Unis
Genre ou forme : Enquêtes
Indice(s) Dewey :
001.942 0973 (23e éd.) = Objets volants non identifiés - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190692889 (rel.). - ISBN 019069288X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45706160z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45706160
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
