Understanding UFO religions and abduction spiritualities

UFO Religions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-42

  Partridge, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203866535-8     Document Type: Chapter

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