{"id":853,"date":"2008-03-27T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2024-07-01T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:00:06","slug":"belief-in-et-abduction-isnt-alien-says-kelley-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/27\/belief-in-et-abduction-isnt-alien-says-kelley-romano\/","title":{"rendered":"Belief in ET abduction isn&#039;t alien, says Kelley-Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/ocr\/faces\/Kelly-Romano0261.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Kelley-Romano\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Kelley-Romano<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Associate Professor of Rhetoric Stephanie Kelley-Romano has interviewed\u00a0many people whose deeply held\u00a0personal beliefs help give meaning\u00a0to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way,\u00a0these people think\u00a0they were once\u00a0abducted by aliens.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Kelley-Romano published her Ph.D. thesis, &#8220;Mythmaking in Alien Abduction Narratives,&#8221; in which she drew from 130 interviews with people who believe they&#8217;ve been abducted by aliens.<\/p>\n<p>One of her conclusions is that\u00a0people who believe they&#8217;ve been abducted have woven a collective myth that acts as a kind of\u00a0religion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x174605.xml\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Rhetoric Stephanie Kelley-Romano has interviewed many people whose deeply held personal beliefs help give meaning to their lives. And, by the way, these people think they were once abducted by aliens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[133,14,224,234],"tags":[7394,11648,10754],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-faculty-staff","category-society-culture","category-teaching-education","tag-religion","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-rhetoric-film-and-screen-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62743,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/62743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}