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To touch the face of God the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 /

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Autore principale: Oliver, Kendrick, 1971-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Serie:New series in NASA history
Soggetti:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History > 20th century.
Astronautics > United States > History > 20th century.
Religion and science > United States > History > 20th century.
Astronautics > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Christianity and politics > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Religion > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
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Sommario:
  • Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up"
  • "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program
  • "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology
  • "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience
  • "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience
  • "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age
  • Epilogue.

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