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Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. "Bears" charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years.

Human-bear encounters --- Black bear

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Alien Chic sets out to provide a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking why our attitudes to aliens have changed from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.

Human-alien encounters --- Martians --- Humanism --- Science fiction films --- Extraterrestrial beings --- Alien encounters with humans --- Alien-human contacts --- Alien-human encounters --- Close encounters of the third kind --- Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial encounters with humans --- Extraterrestrial-human encounters --- Human-alien contacts --- Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings --- Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings --- Unidentified flying objects --- Public opinion --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Sightings and encounters

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UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hostile, and when some scientists pronounced the sightings to be of natural meteorological phenomena misidentified due to "Cold War jitters," military interest declined sharply and, with it, further overt scientific interest. Yet sighting reports didn't stop and UFOs entered the public imagination as a cultural myth of the twentieth century. Brenda Denzler's comprehensive, clearly written, and compelling narrative provides the first sustained overview and valuation of the UFO/alien abduction movement as a social phenomenon positioned between scientific and religious perspectives. Demonstrating the unique place ufology occupies in the twentieth-century nexus between science and religion, Denzler surveys the sociological contours of its community, assesses its persistent attempt to achieve scientific legitimacy, and concludes with an examination of the movement's metaphysical or spiritual outlook. Her book is a substantial contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the boundaries of American religion and to the debate about the nature of science and religion. Denzler presents a thorough and fascinating history of the UFO/abduction movement and traces the tensions between those who are deeply ambivalent about abduction narratives that seemingly erode their quest for scientific credibility, and the growing cultural power of those who claim to have been abducted. She locates the phenomenon within the context of American religious history and, using data gathered in surveys, sheds new light on the social profile of these UFO communities. The Lure of the Edge succeeds brilliantly in repositioning a cultural phenomenon considered by many to be bizarre and marginal into a central debate about the nature of science, technology, and the production of a modern myth.

Alien abduction. --- Human-alien encounters. --- Unidentified flying objects --- Religion and science --- Abduction of humans by aliens --- Alien abductions --- Alien kidnapping --- Close encounters of the fourth kind --- Extraterrestrial abduction --- UFO abduction --- Kidnapping --- Human-alien encounters --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Flying saucers (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Unidentified flying objects (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Alien encounters with humans --- Alien-human contacts --- Alien-human encounters --- Close encounters of the third kind --- Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial encounters with humans --- Extraterrestrial-human encounters --- Human-alien contacts --- Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings --- Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial beings --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Sightings and encounters --- 20th century. --- abductions. --- alien abduction. --- alien encounters. --- alien myth. --- aliens. --- american history. --- cold war. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- fringe science. --- intelligent life. --- military. --- myth. --- mythology. --- phenomenon. --- popular culture. --- scientific. --- scientists. --- social history. --- social studies. --- theology. --- ufo. --- ufology. --- united states history. --- universe. --- us history.

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This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.

Popular Science. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Astrobiology. --- Philosophy of Man. --- Sociology. --- Science (General). --- Philosophy. --- Astronomy. --- Philosophie --- Astronomie --- Sociologie --- Human-alien encounters. --- Human-alien encounters --- Extraterrestrial beings --- Social Sciences --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Astronomy - General --- Astronomical Observatories & Instruments --- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Extraterrestrial beings. --- Alien beings (Extraterrestrials) --- Aliens (Extraterrestrial beings) --- Extraterrestrial intelligence --- Extraterrestrials --- Alien encounters with humans --- Alien-human contacts --- Alien-human encounters --- Close encounters of the third kind --- Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial encounters with humans --- Extraterrestrial-human encounters --- Human-alien contacts --- Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings --- Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings --- Popular works. --- Sociology, general. --- Life on other planets --- Unidentified flying objects --- Sightings and encounters --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Astrobiology --- Biology --- Habitable planets --- Life --- Origin --- Social theory --- Social sciences

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"How--and why-- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures--novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce--the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive--it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion"--

Human-alien encounters. --- Conspiracy theories. --- New Age movement. --- Millennialism. --- Amillennialism --- Chiliasm --- Millenarianism --- Millennianism --- Postmillennialism --- Premillennialism --- Dispensationalism --- Fundamentalism --- Millennium (Eschatology) --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- History --- Alien encounters with humans --- Alien-human contacts --- Alien-human encounters --- Close encounters of the third kind --- Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial encounters with humans --- Extraterrestrial-human encounters --- Human-alien contacts --- Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings --- Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings --- Unidentified flying objects --- Extraterrestrial beings --- Errors, inventions, etc. --- Sightings and encounters --- Strieber, Whitley. --- Icke, David. --- Wilcock, David, --- Cayce, Edgar, --- Strieber, Louis Whitley --- Barry, Jonathan, --- Striber, Uitli --- שטרייבר, ויטלי --- Rencontres avec les extraterrestres --- Théories du complot --- Nouvel Age (Mouvement) --- Millénarisme --- Icke, David --- aquarian conspiracies --- Millennial Conspiracism --- UFOs --- Conspiracism --- popular Millennialism --- the Cold War --- 1947-1987 --- Whitley Strieber --- the Abductee Narrative --- David Icke --- the Reptilian Thesis --- the Science of Oneness --- David Wilcock --- 2012 Millennialism