Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendy Kaminer
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Religion, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Substance abuse, Drug addiction or addicts, 1990’s, Fundamentalism, Public schools, New Age movement
- Locales: United States
Wendy Kaminer is a Public Policy Fellow at Radcliffe who is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly and has published articles and reviews in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Nation, and The New Republic. This is her sixth book, with much of her previous work devoted to various aspects of the women’s movement.
Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials consists of eight essays in which Kaminer attacks a number of targets that are usually considered untouchable. Her primary subject is Western religious faith, which she prefers to term...
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