1970s religion
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alien
alien creators
aliens
anthropocentrism
Author_Susan J. Palmer
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Claude Vorilhon
cloning
cosmology
ecotheology
elohim
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free love
globalization
millenarian
millenarian movement
millenarianism
new religion
nuclear proliferation and war
postmodernism
prophet
race-car driver
racecar driver
Rael
Rael's religion
Rael's UFO religion
Raelian
Raelian movement
religion
rituals
secular humanism
sexual experimentation
sexuality
UFO religion
Vorilhon
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- ISBN 9780813534763
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2004
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Aliens Adored is the first full length, in-depth look at the RaËlian movement, a fascinating new religion founded in the 1970s by the charismatic prophet, RaËl. Born in France as Claude Vorilhon, the former race-car driver founded 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 this pioneering study 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. Rael's radical sexual ethics, his gnostic anthropocentrism, and shallow ecotheology offer us a mirror through which we see how our worldview has been shaped by the forces of globalization, postmodernism, and secular humanism.
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 this pioneering study 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. Rael's radical sexual ethics, his gnostic anthropocentrism, and shallow ecotheology offer us a mirror through which we see how our worldview has been shaped by the forces of globalization, postmodernism, and secular humanism.
SUSAN J. PALMER teaches religious studies at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions and coedited Children in New Religions (Rutgers University Press).
