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Digital Media and the Search for Interplanetary Life on Religion’s Final Frontier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8206959 |
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| Authors | Amanda Furiasse (0000-0002-2799-1647, Nova Southeastern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 193-209 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfad056 |
| OpenAlex | W4386646917 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
NASA’s 2021 Perseverance Rover races toward the farthest reaches of our known world to search for signs of life. Although promising to discover life on the surface of Mars, the rover’s digital images of Mars’s barren and scorched wasteland paradoxically reinforce the fear that death is inevitable. Why search for life on the barren wasteland of Mars? This article explores this question from the perspective of scholarly examinations of Spiritualism and argues that the search for extraterrestrial life on Mars’s surface constitutes a growing religious community, one that reframes religious practice around digital media’s interface and endows digital technologies with the potentiality to transform the burden of our impending extinction into an opportunity to extend humanity’s perceived temporal and spatial finitude
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Astrobiology · Environmental ethics · Extraterrestrial life · Frontier · Geography · Humanity · Interface (matter) · Life on Mars · Mars Exploration Program · Meteorology · Perspective (graphical) · Physics · Political science · Spiritualism · Visual arts · Astro and Planetary Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Highly cited | No |
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