Call for Papers From Close Encounters to Disclosure: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality Proposed Edited Volume for the Pop Culture and Theology Series Since the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, Steven Spielberg has played a significant role in shaping popular cultural understandings of extraterrestrial intelligence, UFOs, and humanity’s relationship…
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Intellectual Humility in the Face of the Unidentified: What Theology Can Learn From Ufology’s Renaissance
By David Armstrong We are living in something of a ufological renaissance at the moment. It is not the only such cultural resurgence and newfound respectability of a previously suppressed subculture: now more than at any other time in American history, interest in aliens, the paranormal, the occult, the psychedelic, and animistic, panpsychist, or idealist…
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