توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب :
یک جنبه مهم اما کمتر مورد توجه از رابط بین علم و دین وجود داشته است، یعنی تمایل گسترده ادیان به توسل به علم در حمایت از ادعاهای حقیقت خود. اگرچه جذابیت علم در ادیان جدیدتر مانند علم مسیحی و ساینتولوژی مشهودتر است، هیچ سنت مذهبی عمده ای از این الگو مستثنی نیست. اعضای تقریباً هر دینی مایلند "حقیقت" خود را مورد حمایت اقتدار علم قرار دهند - به ویژه در میانه دوره تاریخی کنونی، زمانی که همه یقینات قدیمی آرامش بخش مشکل ساز و در معرض تهدید به نظر می رسند. مجموعه حاضر این الگو را در طیف وسیعی از ادیان و جنبشهای معنوی مختلف بررسی میکند و راههای مختلفی را نشان میدهد که ادیان از طریق آنها به مرجعیت علم متوسل میشوند. نتیجه یک مطالعه گسترده و منحصر به فرد متقاعد کننده است که چگونه ادیان پیام خود را با یکی از چالش های اصلی ارائه شده توسط جهان معاصر تطبیق می دهند.
فهرست مطالب :
Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis: Introduction
Theoretical
1 James R. Lewis: How Religions Appeal to the Authority of Science
2 Kathinka Frøystad: From Analogies to Narrative Entanglement: Invoking Scientific Authority in Indian New Age Spirituality
3 Jesper Aagaard Petersen: “We Demand Bedrock Knowledge”: Modern Satanism between Secularized Esotericism and ‘Esotericized’ Secularism
Buddhism and East Asian Traditions
4 David L. McMahan: Buddhism as the “Religion of Science”: From Colonial Ceylon to the Laboratories of Harvard
5 Helen Farley: Falun Gong and Science: Origins, Pseudoscience, and China’s Scientific Establishment
6 Christal Whelan: Metaphorical and Metonymical Science: Constructing Authority in a Japanese New Religion
7 Martin Repp: “When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact”: The Role of Science, Science Fiction, and Technology in Aum Shinrikyo
South Asian Traditions
8 C. Mackenzie Brown: Vivekananda and the Scientific Legitimation of Advaita Vedānta
9 Benjamin E. Zeller: Inverted Orientalism, Vedic Science, and the Modern World: Bhaktivedanta and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
10 Meera Nanda: Madame Blavatsky’s Children: Modern Hindu Encounters with Darwinism
11 Cynthia Ann Humes: The Transcendental Meditation Organization and Its Encounter with Science
12 Richard Cimino: The Sikh Scientific Ethic—Worldly and Mystical
13 David Christopher Lane: The God Experiment: Radhasoami’s Version of Science and the Rhetoric of Guru Succession
Judaism and Islam
14 Damián Setton: The Use of Medicinal Legitimizations in the Construction of Religious Practice: The Dietary Laws of Judaism
15 Hanna Skartveit: Science is Just Catching Up: The Kabbalah Centre and the Neo-Enlightenment
16 Martin Riexinger: Islamic Opposition to the Darwinian Theory of Evolution
Christian Tradition
17 Carie Little Hersh: Fighting Science with Science at Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network
18 Jeremy Rapport: Christian Science, New Thought, and Scientific Discourse (Jeremy Rapport)
19 Sarah M. Lewis: The Unification Movement: Science, Religion, and Absolute Values
Spiritualism and Spiritism
20 Cathy Gutierrez: Spiritualism and Psychical Research20 Cathy Gutierrez: Spiritualism and Psychical Research
21 Gustavo Andrés Ludueña: Popular Epistemologies and “Spiritual Science” in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires
22 Egil Asprem: Parapsychology: Naturalising the Supernatural, Re-Enchanting Science
New Age and Occult
23 Jochen Scherer: The “Scientific” Presentation and Legitimation of the Teaching of Synchronicity in New Age Literature
24 Ruth Bradby: Science as Legitimation for Spirituality: From The Aquarian Conspiracy to Channelling and A Course in Miracles
25 Nevill Drury: Modern Western Magic and Altered States of Consciousness
26 Régis Dericquebourg: Legitimizing Belief through the Authority of Science: The Case of the Church of Scientology
Alternative Archaeologies
27 Carole M. Cusack: New Religions and the Science of Archaeology: Mormons, the Goddess, and Atlantis
28 Kathryn Rountree: Is Dialogue between Religion and Science Possible? The Case of Archaeology and the Goddess Movement
29 Charles W. Nuckolls: Mormon Archaeology and the Claims of History
Theories and Sceptics
30 Ülo Valk: Folklore and Discourse: The Authority of Scientific Rhetoric, from State Atheism to New Spirituality
31 Christopher McIntosh: The Phlogiston Theory: A Late Relic of Pre-Enlightenment Science
32 Asbjørn Dyrendal: “Oh no, it isn’t.” Sceptics and the Rhetorical Use ofScience in Religion
توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب به زبان اصلی :
There has been a significant but little-noticed aspect of the interface between science and religion, namely the widespread tendency of religions to appeal to science in support of their truth claims. Though the appeal to science is most evident in more recent religions like Christian Science and Scientology, no major faith tradition is exempt from this pattern. Members of almost every religion desire to see their ‘truths’ supported by the authority of science – especially in the midst of the present historical period, when all of the comforting old certainties seem problematic and threatened. The present collection examines this pattern in a wide variety of different religions and spiritual movements, and demonstrates the many different ways in which religions appeal to the authority of science. The result is a wide-ranging and uniquely compelling study of how religions adapt their message to one of the major challenges presented by the contemporary world.