SUSAN J. PALMER teaches religious studies at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions and coedited Children in New Religions (Rutgers University Press).

Skillfully weaving together engaging narrative and careful sociological analysis, Susan Palmer has written a ground-breaking study that will be the benchmark for all future studies of alternative religions. - James R. Lewis (general editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements and author of L) Susan Palmer has an extraordinary ability to probe beyond stereotypes and understand unconventional religious and social movements. Her latest book admirably combines rigorous scholarship and honest empathy in depicting one of the most poorly understood movements of our time. - Timothy Miller (University of Kansas) Drawing on interviews, participant-observer accounts of Raelian meetings and analyses of the movement's increasingly sophisticated public relations outreach, Palmer profiles a fascinating new religion still struggling to define itself. Her tone is sometimes admiring, sometimes critical, and always intrigued. (Publishers Weekly)

• Introduction: How I researched the RaeliansContactee prophets in the history of UFOlogyThe last and fastest prophetOn how to construct a new religionMutating the millenniumA visit to the court of RaëlSexy angels for amorous aliens"Enemies within!"Cloning around-hoax or heresy?"Science is our religion."

SUSAN J. PALMER teaches religious studies at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions and coedited Children in New Religions (Rutgers University Press).

Skillfully weaving together engaging narrative and careful sociological analysis, Susan Palmer has written a ground-breaking study that will be the benchmark for all future studies of alternative religions. - James R. Lewis (general editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements and author of L) Susan Palmer has an extraordinary ability to probe beyond stereotypes and understand unconventional religious and social movements. Her latest book admirably combines rigorous scholarship and honest empathy in depicting one of the most poorly understood movements of our time. - Timothy Miller (University of Kansas) Drawing on interviews, participant-observer accounts of Raelian meetings and analyses of the movement's increasingly sophisticated public relations outreach, Palmer profiles a fascinating new religion still struggling to define itself. Her tone is sometimes admiring, sometimes critical, and always intrigued. (Publishers Weekly)

• Introduction: How I researched the RaeliansContactee prophets in the history of UFOlogyThe last and fastest prophetOn how to construct a new religionMutating the millenniumA visit to the court of RaëlSexy angels for amorous aliens"Enemies within!"Cloning around-hoax or heresy?"Science is our religion."

SUSAN J. PALMER teaches religious studies at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions and coedited Children in New Religions (Rutgers University Press).

Skillfully weaving together engaging narrative and careful sociological analysis, Susan Palmer has written a ground-breaking study that will be the benchmark for all future studies of alternative religions. - James R. Lewis (general editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements and author of L) Susan Palmer has an extraordinary ability to probe beyond stereotypes and understand unconventional religious and social movements. Her latest book admirably combines rigorous scholarship and honest empathy in depicting one of the most poorly understood movements of our time. - Timothy Miller (University of Kansas) Drawing on interviews, participant-observer accounts of Raelian meetings and analyses of the movement's increasingly sophisticated public relations outreach, Palmer profiles a fascinating new religion still struggling to define itself. Her tone is sometimes admiring, sometimes critical, and always intrigued. (Publishers Weekly)

• Introduction: How I researched the RaeliansContactee prophets in the history of UFOlogyThe last and fastest prophetOn how to construct a new religionMutating the millenniumA visit to the court of RaëlSexy angels for amorous aliens"Enemies within!"Cloning around-hoax or heresy?"Science is our religion."