Prophets and Protons : New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America / Benjamin E. Zeller.
Zeller, Benjamin E., author.
2010
BL2525 .Z46 2016
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Title Prophets and Protons : New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America / Benjamin E. Zeller.
Author Zeller, Benjamin E., author.
ISBN 9780814797495
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814797204.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814797204.001.0001 doi
Call Number BL2525 .Z46 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 201.65097309045
Summary 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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Series North American Religions ; ; 4
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I SCIENCE AND THE UNIFICATION CHURCH
Introduction
1 Science and the Foundation of Unificationism
2 Science and the American Unification Church
PART II SCIENCE AND THE HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT
Introduction
3 Science and the Foundation of the Hare Krishnas
4 Science and the Expansion of ISKCON
PART III SCIENCE AND HEAVEN'S GATE
Introduction
5 Science and the Foundation of Heaven's Gate
6 Science and the End of Heaven's Gate
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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