Salt Lake Tribune guest columnist Matthew Bowman, a Mormon studies scholar, explores the association between Latter-day Saints and UFOs — and how they fit within Mormon theology.
particularly significant planets, but for her those journeys are metaphysical, the business of being “in the spirit,” not the result of any particular technology.
The way they speak of strange lights in the sky is far different from Aston or Thompson’s technology. Pontius describes “pillars of fire” that connect heaven and Earth and guide church members to Zion. For Rowe, Joseph Smith’sof heavenly beings were, essentially, extraterrestrial visitations. Angels, Jesus Christ and others traveled across the galaxy to Earth through spiritual power alone.
Scholars often argue that the draw of UFOs in American popular culture signals something about us: our awe of technology, for instance, or our worry about our inability to control it. Or, perhaps, our distrust of the state that might be hiding things from us.
Matthew Bowman is Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. His new book is “The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America.”is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and the author of “: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America.”
Matthew Bowman's new book is “The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America.”
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