Prophets and Protons: New Religious Movements and Science in Late TwentiethCentury America (New and Alternative Religions, 4),Used

Prophets and Protons: New Religious Movements and Science in Late TwentiethCentury America (New and Alternative Religions, 4),Used

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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 Heavens 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 movements founding period, we can discern how their views on science were crafted over time. These NRMs shed light on how religious groupsnew, old, alternative, or mainstreamcould respond to the tremendous growth of power and prestige of science in late twentiethcentury America.In this engrossing book, Zeller carefully shows that religious groups had several methods of creatively responding to science, and that the oftenassumed conflictbased 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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