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Diana Pasulka

Disciplines:
technology
religion
uap/ufo
higher education/uncw

Summary

American scholar of religion at UNCW who wrote American Cosmic — examining UAP/UFO phenomena through the lens of religious studies, arguing that the UFO phenomenon functions as a contemporary religion, and exploring the relationship between technology, belief, and the sacred.

Core Contribution

Applies the tools of religious studies to the UFO phenomenon — demonstrating that believers in UAPs exhibit the characteristic structures of religious experience (encounters with non-human intelligences, transformation, community, doctrine) — and interviewing high-level government and scientific insiders who take UAPs seriously.

Notable Works & Achievements

American Cosmic

Believing in Bits

Historical Influences

Mircea Eliade Kripal Jacques Vallee

Intellectual Lineage

UNCWReligious studies

Contemporaries & Peers

Jeff Kripal Jacques Vallee

Minds Influenced

UAP religious studies Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

American Cosmic UAP religious studies

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