2014/01/01 by Susan J. Palmer · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices #Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137386434_9
openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
N ew, startling experiments in sexuality Often emerge out of the ufology milieu. Science-fiction author Ursula Leguin, for example, describes an androgynous society in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). Various twentieth-century contactees, who redefined themselves as prophets after their CEIII experience, have founded new religious movements where the impact of advanced technologies on gender roles is explored. Procreation, parenting, monogamy, and traditional “family values” are Often challenged in UFO religions, whose leaders create new, utopian, “Scientific” models of gender and of family. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.