Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned

The paper examines the conceptualization of salvation and eternal life within the Raëlian movement. After a brief overview of this alternative religious movement, we will give an analysis of certain aspects of the movement’s religious teachings relevant for our paper. Based on a specific biblical ex...

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Autor principal:	Danijel Sinani
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2016
Materias:	alternative religion Raëlian movement salvation eternal life cloning mystification Anthropology GN1-890
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/f833101e70304dbbaf11c15d1bb8fa61
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f833101e70304dbbaf11c15d1bb8fa612021-12-02T02:37:40ZSalvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned10.21301/eap.v8i1.80353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/f833101e70304dbbaf11c15d1bb8fa612016-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/111https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801The paper examines the conceptualization of salvation and eternal life within the Raëlian movement. After a brief overview of this alternative religious movement, we will give an analysis of certain aspects of the movement’s religious teachings relevant for our paper. Based on a specific biblical exegesis and latter developments of the basic teachings, the founder of the movement and his disciples bring a wholly new interpretation of these, perhaps most important religious themes. By positioning intelligence and science into the focus of their eschatology, Raelians introduce the idea of cloning as a path to eternal life. However, even with the attempts made by the founder to represent the Raelian belief system as a total break from the “primitive” understanding and practices of religion, the holy texts of this movement do contain old religious ideas as well as other familiar mechanisms of engaging the religious commitment of its members.Danijel SinaniUniversity of Belgradearticlealternative religionRaëlian movementsalvationeternal lifecloningmystificationAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2016)
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description	The paper examines the conceptualization of salvation and eternal life within the Raëlian movement. After a brief overview of this alternative religious movement, we will give an analysis of certain aspects of the movement’s religious teachings relevant for our paper. Based on a specific biblical exegesis and latter developments of the basic teachings, the founder of the movement and his disciples bring a wholly new interpretation of these, perhaps most important religious themes. By positioning intelligence and science into the focus of their eschatology, Raelians introduce the idea of cloning as a path to eternal life. However, even with the attempts made by the founder to represent the Raelian belief system as a total break from the “primitive” understanding and practices of religion, the holy texts of this movement do contain old religious ideas as well as other familiar mechanisms of engaging the religious commitment of its members.
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title	Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned
title_short	Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned
title_full	Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned
title_fullStr	Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned
title_full_unstemmed	Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned
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publisher	University of Belgrade
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Salvation and Eternal Life in an Alternative Religious Movement – The Raëlian Book of the Cloned

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