{"id":4586,"date":"2014-06-03T07:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/?p=551"},"modified":"2014-06-03T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:19:22","slug":"popular-culture-and-ufo-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2014\/06\/03\/popular-culture-and-ufo-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Culture and UFO Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #666666\">In this video\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e77e23\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/rpe\/who-we-are\/dr-david-webster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Dave Webster<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666\">\u00a0interviews<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0Erik A.W. \u00d6stling about \u00a0the relation between popular culture and UFO religions.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Popular Culture and UFO religion\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffBgguCVEaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nErik has presented\u00a0some materials on this topic such as\u00a0<a style=\"color: #e77e23\" href=\"http:\/\/humanities.tau.ac.il\/religious_studies\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THIS paper\u00a0<\/a>in Israel recently, and<a style=\"color: #e77e23\" href=\"http:\/\/essential.metapress.com\/content\/r404v84h3q221674\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0THIS article<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #252525\">Ra\u00eblian religion.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nIf you are seriously interested in Heaven&#8217;s Gate &#8211; you should definitely go and read this:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthesquare.org\/?p=6742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.fromthesquare.org\/?p=6742<\/a><br \/>\nErik mentions<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/dc_highe.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Heaven&#8217;s Gate<\/a> &#8211; and the use of Star Trek imagery &#8211; here is the video below from their &#8216;Exit Statements&#8217; that were made before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/heavens-gate-cult-members-found-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass suicide<\/a>. The section he refers to is at 52min 20seconds into the video: (warning &#8211; given what happened, the video messages, while cheerily given, can make for\u00a0rather grim viewing).<br \/>\n(It was also <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/US\/9703\/28\/mass.suicide.pm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported at the time<\/a> that among the dead was Thomas Nichols, brother of Nichelle Nichols, the\u00a0actress who played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0001462\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lt. Uhura<\/a> in the original &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; series.)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student Exit Statements\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHz9it70TdI?start=3139&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"event-text\" style=\"color: #666666\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">See our RPE Course blog at\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e77e23\" href=\"http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video\u00a0Dr Dave Webster\u00a0interviews\u00a0Erik A.W. \u00d6stling about \u00a0the relation between popular culture and UFO religions. 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