Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science

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