TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,James R.
AU  - Hammer,Olav
TI  - Handbook of religion and the authority of science
T2  - Brill handbooks on contemporary religion,
SN  - 9789004216389 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL240.3 .H357 2011
U1  - 201/.65 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Authority
KW  - RELIGION / Religion & Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Theoretical; How religions appeal to the authority of science; James R. Lewis; From analogies to narrative entanglement; invoking scientific authority in Indian New Age spirituality; Kathinka Frøystad; We demand bedrock knowledge; modern Satanism between secularized esotericism and "esotericized" secularism; Jesper Aagarad Peterson --; Buddhism and East Asian traditions; Buddhism as the "religion of science"; from colonial Ceylon to the laboratories of Harvard; David L. McMahan; Falun Gong and science; origins, pseudoscience, and China's scientific establishment; Helen Farley; Metaphorical and metonymical science; constructing authority in a Japanese new religion; Christal Whelan; When science fiction becomes science fact; the role of science, science fiction, and technology in Aum Shinrikyo; Martin Repp --; South Asian traditions; Vivekananda and the scientific legitimation of Avaita Vedānta; C. Mackenzie Brown; Inverted orientalism, Vedic science, and the modern world; Bhaktivedanta and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness; Benjamin E. Zeller; Madame Blavatsky's children; modern Hindu encounters with Darwinism; Meera Nanda; The transcendental meditation organization and its encounter with science; Cynthia Ann Humes; The Sikh scientific ethic; worldly and mystical; Richard Cimino; The God experiment; Radhasoami's version of science and the rhetoric of guru succession; David Christopher Lane --; Judaism and Islam; The use of medicinal legitimizations in the construction of religious practice; the dietary laws of Judaism; Damián Setton; Science is just catching up; the Kabbalah Centre and the neo-enlightenment; Hanna Skartveit; Islamic opposition to the Darwinian theory of evolution; Martin Riexinger --; Christian tradition; Fighting science with science at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network; Carie Little Hersh; Christian science, new thought, and scientific discourse; Jeremy Rapport; The unification movement; science, religion, and absolute values; Sarah M. Lewis --; Spiritualism and spiritism; Spiritualism and psychical research; Cathy Gutierrez; Popular epistemologies and "spiritual science" in early twentieth-century Buenos Aires; Gustavo Andrés Ludueña; Parapsychology; naturalising the supernatural, re-enchanting science; Egil Asprem --; New Age and occult; The "scientific" presentation and legitimation of the teaching of synchronicity in New Age literature; Jochen Scherer; Science as legitimation for spirituality; from The aquarian conspiracy to channelling and A course in Miracles; Ruth Bradby; Modern Western magic and altered states of consciousness; Nevill Drury; Legitimizing belief through the authority of science; the case of the Church of Scientology; Régis Dericquebourg --; Alternative archaeologies; New religions and the science of archaeology; Mormons, the Goddess, and Atlantis; Carole M. Cusack; Is dialogue between religion and science possible; the case of archaeology and the Goddess Movement; Kathryn Rountree; Mormon archaeology and the claims of history; Charles W. Nuckolls --; Theories and sceptics; Folklore and discourse; the authority of scientific rhetoric, from state atheism to new spirituality; Ülo Valk; The phlogiston theory; a late relic of pre-enlightenment science; Christopher McIntosh; "Oh no, it isn't."; sceptics and the rhetorical use of science in religion; Asbjørn Dyrendal
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