Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious BeliefsInterVarsity Press, 2008 M01 1 - 288 pages James A. Herrick looks at the surprisingly frequent collusion of science and science fiction for promoting and justifying alternative religions or spiritualities. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Blurring the Mythic Picture | 42 |
Communicating with Martians | 57 |
Imagining Contact | 63 |
The ScienceScience Fiction Cycle | 70 |
The Myth of the New Humanity The Übermensch on the Escalator | 95 |
The Myth of the Future | 130 |
The Myth of the Spiritual Race | 159 |
Religion from Space | 208 |
Conclusion | 211 |
The Myth of Alien Gnosis | 214 |
Jacob Ilive and the Earth as Hell 214 | 218 |
Joseph Smiths Planetary Gnosis | 219 |
The Cult of Cthulhu | 222 |
World Unity Through Alien Gnosis | 224 |
Fred Hoyle on the Seeding of Earth | 226 |
From India and Israel to Europe and Americaand into Space | 165 |
Conclusion | 188 |
The Myth of Space Religion | 192 |
A Brief History of Extraterrestrial Religions | 194 |
William Derhams AstroTheology | 197 |
Swedenborg Visits Space | 198 |
Space Validates Religion | 199 |
Spiritual Evolution as Space Religion | 201 |
Bahai and the Space Connection | 204 |
Foundations of the Next Religion? | 206 |
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