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100 1 Palmer, Susan J.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n89193875
245 10 Aliens adored :|bRael's UFO religion /|cSusan J. Palmer.
264 1 New Brunswick, N.J. :|bRutgers University Press,|c[2004]
264 4 |c©2004
300 1 online resource (226 pages) :|billustrations
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and
index.
505 0 Introduction: How I researched the Raelians -- Contactee
prophets in the history of UFOlogy -- The last and fastest
prophet -- On how to construct a new religion -- Mutating
the millennium -- A visit to the court of Raël -- Sexy
angels for amorous aliens -- "Enemies within!" -- Cloning
around-hoax or heresy? -- "Science is our religion."
520 8 The Raelians came to the attention of the world in 2002
when the spokesperson for Clonaid, a company founded by
Raelian followers, announced that the first human clone
had been born--a claim that although has not been
independently substantiated, prompted outrage and
condemnation from scientists, religious organizations, and
the White House. Aliens Adored is the first full length,
in-depth look at the Raelian movement, a fascinating new
religion founded in the 1970s by charismatic prophet,
Rael. Born in France as Claude Vorilhon, the former race-
car driver started the religion after he experienced a
visitation from the aliens (the "elohim") who, in his
cosmology, created humans by cloning themselves. The
millenarian movement awaits the return of the alien
creators, and in the meantime seeks to develop the
potential of its adherents through free love, sexual
experimentation, opposition to nuclear proliferation and
war, and the development of the science of cloning.
Sociologist Susan J. Palmer has studied the, Raelian
movement for more than a decade, observing meetings and
rituals, and enjoying unprecedented access to the group's
leaders as well as to its rank-and-file members. In Aliens
Adored she provides a thorough analysis of the movement,
focusing on issues of sexuality, millenarianism, and the
impact of the scientific worldview on religion and the
environment. Palmer traces Rael's philosophy and the
formation of the Raelian subculture. Rael's radical sexual
ethics, his gnostic anthropocentricism, and shallow
ecotheology offer us a mirror through which we see how our
worldviews have been shaped by the forces of globalization,
postmodernism, and secular humanism.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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600 00 Raël.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90609589
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600 14 Vorilhon, Claude.
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655 4 Electronic books.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aPalmer, Susan J.|tAliens adored.|dNew
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