Prophets and Protons

Name: Prophets and Protons
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780814797204
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New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America

Autor: Benjamin E. Zeller

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Vydavateľ: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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By the twentieth century science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to...

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Autor

Benjamin E. Zeller

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2010

Stránok

240

EAN

9780814797204

ISBN

0814797202

Enbook ID

04932888

Vydavateľ

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hmotnosť

430

Rozmery

153 x 229 x 20

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By the twentieth century science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions' understandings of science. The Hare Krishnas, the Unification Church, and Heaven's Gate each found distinct ways to incorporate major findings of modern American science, understanding it as central to their wider theological and social agendas. In tracing the development of these new religious movements' viewpoints on science during each movement's founding period, we can discern how their views on science were crafted over time. These NRMs shed light on how religious groups - new, old, alternative, or mainstream - could respond to the tremendous growth of power and prestige of science in late twentieth-century America. In this engrossing book, Zeller carefully shows that religious groups had several methods of creatively responding to science, and that the often-assumed conflict-based model of 'science vs. religion' must be replaced by a more nuanced understanding of how religions operate in our modern scientific world.

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