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