Susan J. Palmer, New UFO Religions

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Susan Jean Palmer is a sociologist of religion who lives in Montreal, Quebec. She is an Affiliate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal and a Research Fellow and Member of the Religious Studies Faculty at McGill University. Her research in the field of new religions has been funded by Canada’s Social Science and the Humanities Research Council. She is the author of Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion (Rutgers 2004), a sociological analysis and ethnographic study of the largest UFO "cult" in the world. She also wrote The Nuawaubian Nation (Ashgate 2011), a study of a Black Nationalist sect whose leader claims to be an extraterrestrial. She has written 11 books in total and is very interested in prophet-founders of UFO religions. In this interview, we discuss Susan's aforementioned books, and other UFO religions around the world. We also discuss their importance and influence on society and mainstream religions. You can see purchase Susan's books on Amazon.com.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Open Mind UFO Radio.
0:44.4	I am your host, Alejandro Rojas.
0:48.0	And I am here with Martin.
0:50.7	You know what I'm going to say?
0:52.9	Don't you know what I'm going to say?
0:53.9	Martin, would guess? I hope going to say? Don't you know what I'm going to say? Martin would guess.
0:56.7	I hope it's not fancy, boy.
0:59.5	Well, just fancy.
1:01.0	It's Martin Fancy Willis.
1:04.7	Yeah.
1:06.3	And the reason I say that is because we've talked about this many times, many times in Martin's other world, his grounded normal life when he's not wearing his UFO podcast cape and mask.
1:24.5	And if you haven't seen this cape and mask, it's really cute there.
1:29.1	It's kind of, but anyway, he does antique, antiquing and antique stuff, and he picked up some fancy French stuff.
1:38.2	And it made me think of calling him fancy.
1:40.9	And he said, please don't call me fancy.
1:43.2	And, you know that that is essentially
1:45.6	begging me to call you fancy don't throw me in the briar I haven't heard of that see that's
1:52.9	a fancy statement that's a fancy kind of uh because a lot of us normal people are like what's
2:00.4	you talk about throw them in people are like, what's you talk about?
2:01.4	Throw them in the barrage, what's that?
2:05.7	We're not familiar with your fancy terms.
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