Religions and extraterrestrial life how will we deal with it?
This book reveals what, if anything, the world's religions say about the possibility that extraterrestrial life exists and how, or if, a particular religion would work on other planets in distant parts of the universe.
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer International Publishing,
[2014]
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| Series: | Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Discovering extrasolar planets
- Once upon a time
- Pluralism through western hisotry
- The discovery of the century
- Detecting exoplanets
- Are angels extraterrestrials?
- Part II. Major religions of the world and extraterrestrial life
- Judaism
- Setting the stage for modern Christianity
- Roman Catholicism
- Orthodox Christianity The church of England and the Anglican communion
- Mainline protestant Christianity
- Evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity
- From Christian books
- Mormonism
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Jainism
- Sikhism
- Bahá'í faith
- Are we ready?
