To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957-1975 (New Series in NASA History)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421407884 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kendrick Oliver is a reader in American history in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Looking at America through this unique windowactually a spaceship's portalreveals things I had not seen before. (Thore Bjørnvig Quest: History of Spaceflight Quarterly)Oliver's well-research book sparkles with graceful prose and cogent insights Also refreshing is Oliver's breadth of knowledge, which leads to pregnant thoughts To Touch the Face of God is a stimulating and original examination of the long Sixties. (Midwest Book Review)To Touch the Face of God is well-written, with short, precise excursions into what almost amounts to poetry, for example: ‘They the astronauts in space could not sit for a morning in the manner of Thoreau, slowly incubating epiphany’ It is an important contribution to the study of the complex connections between spaceflight and religion and thus hi
space program. Lewis. Radioing back to Houston on Christmas Eve, astronauts recited the first ten verses from the book of Genesis. S. Between 1969 and 1975, more than eight million Americans wrote to NASA expressing support for prayer and bible-reading in space. Kendrick Oliver explores the role played by religious motivations in the formation of the space program and discusses the responses of religious thinkers such as Paul Tillich and C. To Touch the Face of God is the first book-length historical study of the relationship between religion and the U.S. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. It was not always easy for them to tell whether it was a godly or godless venture.Grounded in original
"Religion and Engineering: Into the Infinite" according to Dr. Debra Jan Bibel. Seeing the youthful book cover photograph of author Kendrick Oliver (born 1971), I must admire even more so his thorough, original, though slightly deficient, analysis of religion and spirituality of NASA, the astronauts themselves, and citizens at large during the cultural Space Age years. He has the perspective of a . very thoughtful An excellent, very thoughtful inquiry into the cultural undercurrents upon which the Apollo program moved. Oliver has a strong grasp of modern religious impulses and trends, in theology, intellectual life, society, and popular culture, and he shows how these influenced and were influenced by the Space Age. He is also a