UFOs, Religion and Purgatory Parts with Diana Pasulka 1 & 2

Common Threads: An Interfaith Dialogue

Boy, do we cover a lot of ground in these 2 episodes! As I state in my introduction to Part 1, over beer & pizza my cousin Andres tells me about this awesome author he's read who he thinks would be a good fit for CT. Man, he was right. Our guest is Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka author of 'American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology' and 'Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture.' Dr. Pasulka has a B.A. from University of California, Davis, an M.A. from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She is currently a professor in the department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is the chair of the American Academy group Death and Dying.