Belief Transformations
Subtitle: Some Aspects of the Relation Between Science and Religion in Transcendental Meditation (Tm) and the International Society for Krishna ... (Renner Studies on New Religions)
Publisher: Aarhus Univ Pr
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9788772884219
Subjects: Contemporary non-Christian cults & sects; Philosophy & theory of psychology; Philosophy of science; Religion: general; Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Comparative Religion; Hinduism; Religion
Description: "No contemporary religion has managed to ignore the challenge of modern science. Belief Transformations is a case-study of two different new religions in the West, both derived from Hinduism. Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). While TM has attempted to demonstrate the benefits of meditation on 'scientific' grounds, secularizing a religious activity to the point where it becomes acceptable to modern rationality, ISKCON has gone the other way, rejecting the scientific world-view altogether."--BOOK JACKET.