03901nam 22006854a 450 991045840530332120200520144314.00-8147-9749-00-8147-9726-110.18574/9780814797495(CKB)2560000000054005(EBL)866140(OCoLC)779828439(SSID)ssj0000426306(PQKBManifestationID)11294778(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426306(PQKBWorkID)10372979(PQKB)10363082(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325822(MiAaPQ)EBC866140(OCoLC)680017761(MdBmJHUP)muse10177(DE-B1597)546902(DE-B1597)9780814797495(Au-PeEL)EBL866140(CaPaEBR)ebr10428919(EXLCZ)99256000000005400520090915d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrProphets and protons[electronic resource] new religious movements and science in late twentieth-century America /Benjamin E. ZellerNew York New York University Press20101 online resource (238 p.)The new and alternative religions seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-9721-0 0-8147-9720-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Section I: Science and the Unification Church -- Introduction to Section I -- Science and the foundation of unificationism -- Science and the American Unification Church -- Section II: Science and the Hare Krishna Movement -- Introduction to Section II -- Science and the foundation of the Hare Krishnas -- Science and the expansion of Iskcon -- Section III: Science and Heaven's Gate -- Introduction to Section III -- Science and the foundation of Heaven's Gate -- Science and the end of Heaven's Gate.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.New and alternative religions series.Religion and scienceUnited States20th centuryReligion and scienceUnited States21st centuryUnited StatesReligion20th centuryUnited StatesReligion21st centuryElectronic books.Religion and scienceReligion and science201/.65097309045Zeller Benjamin E1034573MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458405303321Prophets and protons2486295UNINA