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Lewis and Olav Hammer.  aLeiden ;aBoston :bBrill,c2011.  a1 online resource (xv, 924 p.) :bill.1 aBrill handbooks on contemporary religion,x1874-6691 ;vv. 3  aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.00tTheoretical.tHow religions appeal to the authority of science /rJames R. Lewis ;tFrom analogies to narrative entanglement :tinvoking scientific authority in Indian New Age spirituality /rKathinka Frøystad ;tWe demand bedrock knowledge :tmodern Satanism between secularized esotericism and "esotericized" secularism /rJesper Aagarad Peterson --tBuddhism and East Asian traditions.tBuddhism as the "religion of science" :tfrom colonial Ceylon to the laboratories of Harvard /rDavid L. McMahan ;tFalun Gong and science :torigins, pseudoscience, and China's scientific establishment /rHelen Farley ;tMetaphorical and metonymical science :tconstructing authority in a Japanese new religion /rChristal Whelan ;tWhen science fiction becomes science fact ;tthe role of science, science fiction, and technology in Aum Shinrikyo /rMartin Repp --tSouth Asian traditions.tVivekananda and the scientific legitimation of Avaita Vedānta /rC. Mackenzie Brown ;tInverted orientalism, Vedic science, and the modern world :tBhaktivedanta and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness /rBenjamin E. Zeller ;tMadame Blavatsky's children :tmodern Hindu encounters with Darwinism /rMeera Nanda ;tThe transcendental meditation organization and its encounter with science /rCynthia Ann Humes ;tThe Sikh scientific ethic :tworldly and mystical /rRichard Cimino ;tThe God experiment :tRadhasoami's version of science and the rhetoric of guru succession /rDavid Christopher Lane --tJudaism and Islam.tThe use of medicinal legitimizations in the construction of religious practice :tthe dietary laws of Judaism /rDamián Setton ;tScience is just catching up :tthe Kabbalah Centre and the neo-enlightenment /rHanna Skartveit ;tIslamic opposition to the Darwinian theory of evolution /rMartin Riexinger --tChristian tradition.tFighting science with science at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network /rCarie Little Hersh ;tChristian science, new thought, and scientific discourse /rJeremy Rapport ;tThe unification movement :tscience, religion, and absolute values /rSarah M. Lewis --tSpiritualism and spiritism.tSpiritualism and psychical research /rCathy Gutierrez ;tPopular epistemologies and "spiritual science" in early twentieth-century Buenos Aires /rGustavo Andrés Ludueña ;tParapsychology :tnaturalising the supernatural, re-enchanting science /rEgil Asprem --tNew Age and occult.tThe "scientific" presentation and legitimation of the teaching of synchronicity in New Age literature /rJochen Scherer ;tScience as legitimation for spirituality :tfrom The aquarian conspiracy to channelling and A course in Miracles /rRuth Bradby ;tModern Western magic and altered states of consciousness /rNevill Drury ;tLegitimizing belief through the authority of science :tthe case of the Church of Scientology /rRégis Dericquebourg --tAlternative archaeologies.tNew religions and the science of archaeology :tMormons, the Goddess, and Atlantis /rCarole M. Cusack ;tIs dialogue between religion and science possible :tthe case of archaeology and the Goddess Movement /rKathryn Rountree ;tMormon archaeology and the claims of history /rCharles W. Nuckolls --tTheories and sceptics.tFolklore and discourse :tthe authority of scientific rhetoric, from state atheism to new spirituality /rÜlo Valk ;tThe phlogiston theory :ta late relic of pre-enlightenment science /rChristopher McIntosh ;t"Oh no, it isn't." :tsceptics and the rhetorical use of science in religion /rAsbjørn Dyrendal.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aReligion and science. 0aAuthority. 7aRELIGION / Religion & Science2bisacsh 4aElectronic books.1 aLewis, James R.1 aHammer, Olav.08iPrint version:z9789004187917w(DLC)  2010036406w(OCoLC)660161959 0aBrill handbooks on contemporary religion ;vv. 3.403Brilluhttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/9789004216389403EBSCOhostuhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=506426  aEBSCOhostbEBSCn506426  acpp1723AUTO  a02bN$T  c52088d52088