Separation of church and space: Religious influences on public support for U.S. space exploration policy

Ambrosius, Joshua D.

doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2015.02.003

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“…Certainly a visit from spacefarers not of Planet Earth would provide all kinds of pressing reasons for getting out there, ranging from security and survival, in preparedness for a possible interstellar attack on Earth, to sheer curiosity. Joshua Ambrosius's (2015aAmbrosius's ( , 2015b work directly addresses the connection between religious belief and passion for space exploration, is statistically more sophisticated than Borzellieri's survey, and in general has conclusions about humans in space that agree with Borzellieri's about extra-terrestrials in Roswell.…”

Section: The Facts On the Ground And The Truest Believersmentioning

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The Missing Orientation

Levinson

2020

Religions

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Humans last walked on the Moon in 1972. We not only have gone no further with in-person expeditions to places off Planet Earth, we have not even been back to the Moon. The main motive for getting to the Moon back then, Cold War competition, may have subsided, but competition for economic and scientific advantage among nations has continued, and has failed to ignite further human exploration of worlds beyond our planet. Nor has the pursuit of science, and the pursuit of commerce and tourism, in their own rights. This essay explores those failures, and argues for the integration of a missing ingredient in our springboard to space: the desire of every human being to understand more of what we are doing in this universe, why we are here, our place and part in the cosmos. Although science may answer a part of this, the deepest parts are the basis of every religion. Although the answers provided by different religions may differ profoundly, the orientation of every religion is to shed some light on what part we play in this universe. This orientation, which also can be called a sense of wonder, may be precisely what has been missing, and just what is needed, to at last extend our humanity beyond this planet on a permanent basis.

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Section: The Facts On the Ground And The Truest Believersmentioning

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The Missing Orientation

Levinson

2020

Religions

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“…It could be that the role of Laudato in reaching new partners is most important not between ideological camps but rather across the levels of religiosity or religious experience. Even if studies have arrived at nuanced conclusions on public opinion on religion and science (Ambrosius 2015; Ecklund et al 2017), there may be a reason to suspect that high religiosity individuals would be most responsive to Francis' cues in Laudato. Scholars of elite framing have documented the ways in which personal interactions may reinforce, or undermine, elite cues (Druckman and Nelson 2003).…”

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Religious Elite Cues, Internal Division, and the Impact of Pope Francis' Laudato Si'

Buckley

2020

Politics and Religion

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What impact do cues from religious elites have on followers, particularly when religious communities are internally divided? Could religious elites promote internal consensus, or would their cues stoke further internal polarization? This article utilizes the release of Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si', to explore these questions. A unique survey experiment, conducted on a nationally representative sample of Catholic voters in the United States in late 2015, tests the impact of Francis' message relative to a similar message from unidentified environmental elites. In keeping with other studies of Laudato's impact in the United States, findings reveal real, but nuanced, effects from Francis' environmental cue. The Francis cue did impact conservatives and high religiosity Catholics, but these effects were not distinct from those on other Catholics in the sample, suggesting limitations in promoting consensus. Instead, responses to a Francis cue varied sharply depending on pre-existing views of Francis' leadership.

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“…Common knowledge about space travel inherits the footprints of not only the diffused scientific knowledge from scientific organizations but also social institutions such as religion and temples that have a stance about space travel. Even though some religions have a more favorable attitude towards humans' exploration and conquer of space, some still have hesitations about supporting space programs (Ambrosius, 2015). Ambrosius' study revealed that Jewish and Eastern religions were most familiar, interested, and supportive of space travel while the Evangelicals, one‐quarter of the U.S. population, are situated on the opposite end of the spectrum in knowledge, interest, and support for space exploration.…”

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Social representations of space travel: Modeling the antecedents and outcomes

Tasci

Fyall

2020

Journal of Tourism Research

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Using Social Representations Theory, the current study modeled different information sources, "anchoring" of space travel, "objectification" of space travel and their influences on attitude towards, support for, and attractiveness of space travel using data from 474 respondents. PLS-SEM revealed that negative anchors related to space travel influence negative attitude while the objectification of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Tesla influence the positive attitudes. Organizations with an interest in space tourism need to use scientific knowledge and scientists, documentary broadcasts, and serious news media for broadening their appeal, as more tangible scientific messages derive the higher response and impact.

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Separation of church and space: Religious influences on public support for U.S. space exploration policy

Cited by 20 publications

References 48 publications

The Missing Orientation

The Missing Orientation

Religious Elite Cues, Internal Division, and the Impact of Pope Francis' Laudato Si'

Social representations of space travel: Modeling the antecedents and outcomes

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