" God's Descending in Clouds (Flying Saucers) " Anthropological Approaches to UFOs in the Religious Register AAA Annual Conference @BULLET By Ryan J Cook

https://www.academia.edu/30227680/_Gods_Descending_in_Clouds_Flying_Saucers_Anthropological_Approaches_to_UFOs_in_the_Religious_Register_AAA_Annual_Conference_at_BULLET?rhid=41180783947&swp=rr-rw-wc-169582917&nav_from=8d1ca25e-e8c6-408c-b198-3ee1849b51d0 Drawing on social scientific research on flying saucer religions, including my own work on Heaven's Gate (US) and Chen Tao (ROC), I suggest several paths along which anthropologists ought to pursue UFOs in the religious register. The first, for which anthropology is uniquely qualified, is to trace the flows of people and information-including the diffusion of UFO beliefs-that connect flying saucer religions around the world. The second is to determine the nature of the relationship between culture, social conditions, and the adoption of UFOs into the religious repertoire. The third is to analyze the role of technology in UFO religions, both in conceptualizing the sacred and in mediating between those religions and the wider society. ...