Answer each question separately.
Question 1: Are UFO religions really religions? Why or whynot? In what ways are descriptions of alien abductions descriptions of areligious experience?
Question 2: The past decades in the United States have seena decline in membership in traditional mainstream religions but an increase inmembership in both New Age/Pagan religions and fundamentalist religions. Inwhat ways are these two types of religious movements very different? In whatways are they similar? Why do you think they have been popular whiletraditional religions have declined?
Question 3: Why do you think religiously motivated violence has increased in recent decades? Why do you think people commit such acts?