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Secularity, synchronicity, and uncanny science: considerations and challenges
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This article is published in Zygon.The article was published on 2021-06-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Secularity & Uncanny.read more
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Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness
Jacques F. Vallee,Eric W. Davis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the continuing study of UAVs may offer an existence theorem for new models of physical reality, and they propose a framework for scientific analysis of UAPs that takes into account the incommensurability problem.
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Religion in the Twenty-First Century
TL;DR: The notion of being "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR) was coined by Robertson as discussed by the authors and has been used to describe those who are disillusioned with institutional religion even if they feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition.
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Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors evaluate the connection between the profession and the commercialization and exploitation of space resources, human-generated cosmic trash, and terrestrial challenges and conclude that social work must "look to the stars" and help humanity navigate competing interests in a delicate space future.
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Faculty perceptions of unidentified aerial phenomena
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors conducted a survey with tenured and tenure-track faculty across 14 disciplines at 144 major research universities (N = 1460) to examine faculty evaluations, explanations, and experiences regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
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Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, modernity
TL;DR: Asad as discussed by the authors explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of the secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East, and concludes that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational.
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Techniques of the body
TL;DR: In this article, the authors translated M. Mauss (1973 [1936]) and Ben Brewster (1936) into English and translated them into the technical terms Techniques of the body.
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Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe
TL;DR: The Singularity movement is a loosely organized social movement of futurists planning for the advent of superintelligence as discussed by the authors, with the main idea behind the movement being that humans, currently building faster, more powerful devices, will soon build greater than human intelligence.
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Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust:
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that any science doubt surrounding unidentified flying objects and aliens was not primarily due to the ignorance of ufologists about science, but rather a product of the respective research practices of and relations between ufology, the sciences, and government investigative bodies.
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CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: A Die-Hard Issue
TL;DR: In a declassified issue of the CIA's in-house journal as discussed by the authors, the authors examined the impact of UFOs in North America from their very year of creation to the Roswell incident in New Mexico.