TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazur,Eric Michael
AU  - Taylor,Sarah McFarland
TI  - Religion and outer space 
SN  - 9780367542276
AV  - BL240.3 .R456 2023
U1  - 201.652 M458R 23/eng/20230425
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Outer space
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Religion and Outer Space examines religion in and on the final frontier. This book offers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for thinking about complex encounters of religion and outer space. A multidisciplinary group of scholarly experts takes up some of the most intriguing scientific, spiritual, trade/commercial, and even military dimensions of the complex entanglements of religion and outer space. Attending to the historical reality that the interconnections between religion and the heavens are as old as religions themselves, the volume starts with an examination of "outer space" elements in the most sacred writings of the world's religions. It then explores some of the religious questions inevitable in this encounter, analyzing cultural constructions (both literary and actual) of religion and outer space. It ends with examinations of the role of religion in the very real and very present business of space exploration. What might motivate the spread of religion (or at least fantasies of religion in its myriad possibilities) into new interior and exterior dimensions of the cosmos? Only the future will tell. Religion and Outer Space is essential reading for students and academics with an interest in religion and space, religion and science, space exploration, religion and science fiction, popular culture, and religion in America"--
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