Diana Walsh Pasulka

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Diana Walsh Pasulka is a writer and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.[1]

Biography[]

Pasulka has a B.A. from University of California, Davis, an M.A. from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.[2]

Her research focuses on religion and technology. Her books include American Cosmic[3][4] and Heaven Can Wait.[5] Sean Illing at Vox described American Cosmic as not "so much about the truth of UFOs or aliens as it is about what the appeal of belief in those things says about our culture and the shifting roles of religion and technology in it. On the surface, it's a book about the popularity of belief in aliens, but it's really a deep look at how myths and religions are created in the first place and how human beings deal with unexplainable experiences."[6]

Selected works[]

Books[]

  • Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0195382020.
  • American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology. Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0190692889.[7]

Co-edited anthologies[]

  • Posthumanism: the Future of Homo Sapiens. Schirmer, 2018. Edited by Pasulka and Michael Bess. ISBN 9780028664484.
  • Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural. Oxford University Press, 2019. Edited by Pasulka and Simone Natale. ISBN 978-0190949990.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Diana Walsh Pasulka". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  2. ^ "Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor". uncw.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  3. ^ "Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic devotional and popular culture". The Tablet. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  4. ^ American Cosmic. Kirkus Reviews.
  5. ^ Loncar, Samuel. "A Quest for the Holy Grail: On D. W. Pasulka's "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  6. ^ Illing, Sean (4 June 2019). "The new American religion of UFOs". Vox. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  7. ^ "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  8. ^ "(edited by) by Simone Natale, Diana Pasulka – Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural". Neural. Retrieved 2021-02-12.

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