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245 0 0 _aHandbook of religion and the authority of science
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.
260 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 924 p.) :
_bill.
490 1 _aBrill handbooks on contemporary religion,
_x1874-6691 ;
_vv. 3
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 0 _tTheoretical.
_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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aReligion and science.
650 0 _aAuthority.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Religion & Science
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aLewis, James R.
700 1 _aHammer, Olav.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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_w(DLC) 2010036406
_w(OCoLC)660161959
830 0 _aBrill handbooks on contemporary religion ;
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