Contemporary Ascent Narratives: From Catholic UFOs to New Religious Movements
Date: Monday, Apr 8, 2024
Start time: 4:00 PM
End time: 5:30 PM
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
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 her lecture Professor Diana Walsh Pasulka will examine the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions.