RELIGIOUS RITES AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES: AYUDHA PUJA AS “CULTURE” AT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: with Jeff Wilson, “‘The New Science of Health and Happiness’: Investigating Buddhist Engagements with the Scientific Study of Meditation”; Oliver Zambon and Thomas Aechtner, “Vaishnavism, Antievolutionism, and Ambiguities: Revisiting ISKCON's Darwin Skepticism”; and Renny Thomas and Robert M. Geraci, “Religious Rites and Scientific Communities: Ayudha Puja as ‘Culture’ at the Indian Institute of Science.”

RELIGIOUS RITES AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES: AYUDHA PUJA AS “CULTURE” AT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: with Jeff Wilson, “‘The New Science of Health and Happiness’: Investigating Buddhist Engagements with the Scientific Study of Meditation”; Oliver Zambon and Thomas Aechtner, “Vaishnavism, Antievolutionism, and Ambiguities: Revisiting ISKCON's Darwin Skepticism”; and Renny Thomas and Robert M. Geraci, “Religious Rites and Scientific Communities: Ayudha Puja as ‘Culture’ at the Indian Institute of Science.”

Ayudha Puja , a South Indian festival translated as “worship of the machines,” is a dramatic example of how religion and science intertwine in political life. Across South India, but especially in the state of Karnataka, scientists and engineers celebrate the festival in offices, laboratories, and w...

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Veröffentlicht in:Zygon 2018-03, Vol.53 (1), p.95-122
Hauptverfasser: Thomas, Renny, Geraci, Robert M.
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