Belief Transformations: Some Aspects of the Relation between Science and Religion in Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the International Society for . (ISKCON) (Renner Studies on New Religions)

Rothstein, Mikael

ISBN 10: 8772884215 / ISBN 13: 9788772884219

Published by Aarhus University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Belief Transformations: Some Aspects of the Relation between Science and Religion in Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the International Society for . (ISKCON) (Renner Studies on New Religions)
• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8772884215
• ISBN 13: 9788772884219
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

RENNER Studies on New Religions is an initiative supported by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. The series was established to publish books on alternative spiritual movements from a wide range of perspectives. The books will appeal to an international readership of scholars, students, and professionals in the study of religion, theology, the arts, and the social sciences. It is hoped that this series will provide a proper context for scientific exchange between these often competing disciplines. Simply stated, the authorAes main contention is that the two onewo religions under scrutiny - TM and ISKCON - are, despite their common rootedness in Vedic Hinduism, fundamentally opposed to each other. As presented here, they are fundamentally opposed particularly in their attitudes toward modern Western science, which world-affirming TM celebrates and would assimilate ...and world-denying ISKCON rejects as an illusion...in sum this book is both instructive and provocative - C. MacCormick, Wells College.

About the Author

Mikael Rothstein is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen.