To touch the face of God [electronic resource] : the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 / Kendrick Oliver.
2013
TL789.8.U5 O39 2013eb
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Title
To touch the face of God [electronic resource] : the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 / Kendrick Oliver.
Author
Oliver, Kendrick, 1971-
ISBN
9781421407883
1421407884
9781421408347 electronic book
1421407884
9781421408347 electronic book
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 229 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., ports.
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TL789.8.U5 O39 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.40973/09046
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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New series in NASA history
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Table of Contents
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.
"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.