Another Life, Another World: The Spiritual Origins of Spaceflight

dc.contributor.authorSnopek, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-26T16:36:22Z
dc.date.available2023-01-26T16:36:22Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-26
dc.date.submitted2023-01-24
dc.description.abstractThis work reassesses the origins of the idea of humanity’s destiny in outer space, examining the development of popular enthusiasm about extraterrestrial life and reincarnation in Europe and America from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It connects popular interest in the afterlife to transcendental and spiritualistic perceptions of outer space, which originated as mystical and theological ideas which over the course of the nineteenth century became increasingly secular and scientific. The result was a utopian view of humanity’s future on other planets, one which transformed from the spiritual to the physical and inspired early rocket pioneers to seriously theorise and advocate for spaceflight, leading to the ultimate achievement of this goal in the 1960s.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/19126
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectouter spaceen
dc.subjectspiritualismen
dc.subjectAmerican historyen
dc.subjectFrench historyen
dc.subjectRussian historyen
dc.subjectintellectual historyen
dc.subject19th centuryen
dc.subjectreincarnationen
dc.subjectextraterrestrial lifeen
dc.subjectMarsen
dc.subjectspaceflighten
dc.titleAnother Life, Another World: The Spiritual Origins of Spaceflighten
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentHistoryen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineHistoryen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws-etd.embargo.terms0en
uws.contributor.advisorStatiev, Alexander
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Artsen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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