Description: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Contactees: A Survey J. Gordon Melton 2. Religious Dimensions of UFO Phenomena John A. Saliba 3. Religious Dimensions of the UFO Abductee Experience John Whitmore 4. Unarius: Emergent Aspects of an American Flying Saucer Group Diana Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick 5. Women in the Raelian Movement: New Religious Experiments in Gender and Authority Susan Jean Palmer 6. Waiting for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and Peep's UFO Cult Robert W. Balch 7. Spiritualism and UFO Religion in New Zealand: The International Transmission of Modern Spiritual Movements Robert S. Ellwood 8. Exo-Theology: Speculations on Extraterrestrial Life Ted Peters 9. UFO Contactee Phenomena from a Sociopsychological Perspective: A Review John A. Saliba 10. The Flying Saucer Contactee Movement, 1950-1994: A Bibliography J. Gordon Melton and George M. Eberhart Index

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