RT Book
T1 Religion and academia reframed: connecting religion, science, and society in the Long Sixties
T2 Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion
A2 Rota, Andrea 1983-
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1876901446
AB "The Long Sixties (1955-1973) were a period of economic prosperity, political unrest, sexual liberation, cultural experimentation, and profound religious innovation throughout the Western world. This social effervescence also affected the study of religion by reshaping the relationships between academic and religious institutions and discourses. While the mainstream churches sought to deploy the instruments of the social sciences to understand and manage the changing socioreligious context, prominent scholars regarded the bubbly spirituality of the counterculture as the harbinger of a new era; some of them actively used their academic knowledge to further this revolution. This book discusses the multiple entanglements of religion and science during these turbulent decades through theoretically informed case studies from both sides of the Atlantic"--
NO Includes index
CN BL240.3
SN 9789004546578
K1 Religion and science : United States : 20th century
K1 Religion and sociology : United States : 20th century
K1 Religion and science : Case studies
K1 Religion and sociology : Case studies
K1 Nineteen sixties
K1 United States : Social conditions : 20th century
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.1163/9789004546578