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  title info:
    title: Religions and Extraterrestrial Life
    sub title: How Will We Deal With It?
  name:
    name part: Weintraub, David A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 234 p. online resource.
  abstract: In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered clear evidence of life beyond the Earth. Such a discovery of extraterrestrial life will change everything. Knowing the answer as to whether humanity has company in the universe will trigger one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in history, not the least of which will be a challenge for at least some terrestrial religions. Which religions will handle the discovery of extraterrestrial life with ease and which will struggle to assimilate this new knowledge about our place in the universe? Some religions as currently practiced appear to only be viable on Earth. Other religions could be practiced on distant worlds but nevertheless identify both Earth as a place and humankind as a species of singular spiritual religious importance, while some religions could be practiced equally well anywhere in the universe by any sentient beings. Weintraub guides readers on an invigorating tour of the world’s most widely practiced religions. It reveals what, if anything, each religion has to 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.
  table of contents: Part I: Discovering Extrasolar Planets -- Once Upon a Time -- Pluralism Through Western History -- 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 Roots -- Mormonism -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Jainism -- Sikhism -- Bahá’í Faith -- Are We Ready? -- Appendix: The Exoplanets Revealed by the Kepler Mission Through 2013.
  note: by David A. Weintraub.
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  classification: BL1-2790
  classification: 200
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783319050560
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05056-0
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    record creation date: 140716
    record change date: 20151204162152.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-05056-0