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1 online resource (xv, 924 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill handbooks on contemporary religion,
1874-6691 ;
v. 3
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Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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 ; 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 ; Transcendental meditation organization and its encounter with science / Cynthia Ann Humes ; Sikh scientific ethic : worldly and mystical / Richard Cimino ; God experiment : Radhasoami's version of science and the rhetoric of guru succession / David Christopher Lane -- Judaism and Islam. Use of medicinal legitimizations in the construction of religious practice : Dietary laws of Judaism / Damián Setton ; Science is just catching up : 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 ; 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. "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 : 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 : 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 : Authority of scientific rhetoric, from state atheism to new spirituality / Ülo Valk ; 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion and science.
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Religion and science. |
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Authority. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lewis, James R.
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Hammer, Olav.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789004187917 (DLC) 2010036406 (OCoLC)660161959 |
| ISBN |
9789004216389 (electronic book) |
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9004216383 (electronic book) |
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9789004187917 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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900418791X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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