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To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane, and the American space program, 1957-1975 /
This book is a historical study of the relationship between religion and the U.S. space program. The author explores the role played by religious motivations in the formation of the space program and discusses the responses of religious thinkers such as Paul Tillich and C. S. Lewis. Examining the at...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013
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| Colección: | New series in NASA history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.