I’m going to be blogging through this article over the next few weeks. It is one of the few scholarly articles that deals with demonology and the belief in aliens.  It’s written by Christopher Partridge, the same religious studies scholar who edited the book UFO Religions, and whose chapter in that book I blogged about with respect to “Balducci’s Conundrum.”

Here’s the article if you want to read it ahead of the blogging: “Alien Demonology: The Christian Roots of the Malevolent Extraterrestrial in UFO Religions and Abduction Spiritualities,” Religion 34 (2004): 163-189.