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Believing in bits : digital media and the supernatural
\"As technologies that work by computing numbers, digital media apparently epitomize what is considered scientific and rational. Yet, people experience the effects of digital devices and algorithms in their everyday life also through the lenses of magic and the supernatural. Algorithms, for instance, are discussed for their capacity to \"read minds\" and predict the future; Artificial Intelligence as an opportunity to overcome death and achieve immortality through singularity; and avatars and robots are accorded a dignity that traditional religions restricted to humans. The essays collected in this volume address these and similar phenomena, challenging and redefining established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Handbook of UFO Religions
The Handbook of UFO Religions, edited by scholar of new religions Benjamin E. Zeller, offers the most expansive and detailed study of the persistent, popular, and global phenomenon of religious engagements with ideas about extraterrestrial life.
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Excesses, Resisting Interpretation, and the Negative in Three Latin American Imaginaries
Abstract This article will explore three ethnographies—of Brazilian Umbanda, Cuban espiritismo, and Chilean ufology—whose cosmoses are variably self-referential, paradoxical, and absurd. I follow their anti-logics and argue that they exhibit, firstly, an excess, and secondly, a resistance to interpretation. Taking my concept of excess from Marisol de la Cadena, and of resisting interpretation from Susan Sontag, I argue that a radical version of resisting interpretation must go beyond experience and describe ontological evacuation itself—a ‘nothingness’ that holds all possibilities simultaneously; or an excess that contradicts either-or logics. I suggest we look at both the horror narrative and apophatic mysticism, which resist thought itself, as well as language, for a heuristic that is able to deal with ethnographies that defy logics of meaning or common sense.
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Land of (Re) Enchantment: Tourism and Sacred Space at Roswell and Chimayó, New Mexico
[...]upon cursory inspection, the Chimayo site seems sacred and the Roswell one secular. The adobe church's full name, El Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquípulas, embodies its Spanish Catholic heritage.30 Sites of pilgrimage within New Mexico, such as Roswell and Chimayó, invigorate the state's economy and bring tourists into contact with greater realms of meaning.
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How Prophecy Never Fails: Interpretive Reason in a Flying-Saucer Group
This descriptive analysis utilizes the ethnomethological approach to examine how reality is socially constructed within the interpretive logic of a flying-saucer group. Ethnographic data was collected over a five year period at the Unarius Academy of Science in El Cajon, California. Drawing upon participant observation, interviews, and archival research, the inquiry explores the historical events surrounding, as well as the contemporary understanding of, their prophecy and its role in reality maintenance. Periphery issues and criticisms of Festinger's When prophecy fails by the ZygmuntMelton model are considered as relevant to the historical data. With Pollners notion of mundane reason as the framework for analysis, the qualitative data show how contemporary member-practitioners explain away the interpretations of others, thereby sustaining their commitment to the group and the validity of their prophecy.
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