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Author:

Oliver, Kendrick, 1971-

Title:

To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane, and the American space program, 1957-1975 / Kendrick Oliver.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Astronautics--United States--History--20th century.
Religion and science--United States--History--20th century.
Astronautics--History--United States--History--20th century.
Christianity and politics--United States--History--20th century.
United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History--20th century.
United States--Religion--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up" -- "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program -- "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology -- "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience -- "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience -- "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age -- Epilogue.

Series:

New series in NASA history

ISBN:

1421408341 (ebk.)
9781421408347 (ebk.)
1421407884 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9781421407883 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)794227950

LCCN:

2012017651

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)