{"product_id":"faith-in-space-american-religious-belief-in-extraterrestrial-life-9780691277684","title":"Faith in Space: American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's Gate\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion. \u003ci\u003eFaith in Space\u003c\/i\u003e examines the key thinkers and religious leaders throughout American history who built faith communities around the notion that we are not alone in the universe, and that the path to spiritual truth leads heavenward to the stars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Gutjahr reveals the pivotal role Protestant Christianity played in the formation of extraterrestrial belief in many of these traditions, sharing new perspectives on prominent Americans such as Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Paine. He goes on to examine familiar religious movements such as Spiritualism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Scientology, the Nation of Islam, and Heaven's Gate as well as lesser-known belief systems such as Swedenborgianism, Theosophy, the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, and Ashtar Command. Gutjahr shows how prophetic figures in these traditions created rich cosmological tapestries for their followers, bridging the terrestrial and the extraterrestrial with their spiritual insights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA panoramic work of scholarship, \u003ci\u003eFaith in Space\u003c\/i\u003e traces how these traditions have offered generations of Americans cosmically oriented religious thinking through the belief in alien life, propounding a view that humanity's salvation is inextricably tied to the actions and interventions of intelligent beings from other worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul C. Gutjahr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691277684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul C. Gutjahr\u003c\/b\u003e is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Mormon: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton); \u003ci\u003eCharles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAn American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Paul C. Gutjahr \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48943975760029,"sku":"9780691277684","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_faaf0ddf-9e7c-48ab-83fa-d41155ed2253.jpg?v=1790153121","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/faith-in-space-american-religious-belief-in-extraterrestrial-life-9780691277684","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}