Other Worlds : : Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions / / Christopher G. White.
What do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist séances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world’s most talented physicists. The other is a spiritual practice widely thought of as backward, the product of a mystical world view fading u...
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White, Christopher G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Other Worlds : Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions / Christopher G. White. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (340 p.) : 19 halftones, 15 line illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Science, the Supernatural, and Higher Realms -- 1. Edwin Abbott’s Otherworldly Visions -- 2. The Man Who Saw the Fourth Dimension -- 3. New Heaven, New Earth -- 4. Cathedrals without Walls -- 5. Max Weber and the Art of an Invisible Geometry -- 6. The Spacetime of Dreams -- 7. Mirrors, Doorways, and Otherworldly Openings -- 8. Madeleine L’Engle Disturbs the Universe -- 9. One Step Beyond -- Conclusion: The Astonishing Afterlife of the Square -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist séances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world’s most talented physicists. The other is a spiritual practice widely thought of as backward, the product of a mystical world view fading under the modern scientific gaze. But Christopher G. White sees striking similarities. He does not claim that séances or other spiritual practices are science. Yet he points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even the existential meaning of the universe. Other Worlds examines how the idea that the universe has multiple, invisible dimensions has inspired science fiction, fantasy novels, films, modern art, and all manner of spiritual thought reaching well beyond the realm of formal religion. Drawing on a range of international archives, White analyzes how writers, artists, filmmakers, televangelists, and others have used the scientific idea of invisible dimensions to make supernatural phenomena such as ghosts and miracles seem more reasonable and make spiritual beliefs possible again for themselves and others. Many regard scientific ideas as disenchanting and secularizing, but Other Worlds shows that these ideas—creatively appropriated in such popular forms as C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, the art of Salvador Dalí, or the books of the counterculture physicist “Dr. Quantum”—restore a sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see, helping to forge an unexpected kind of spirituality. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Arts and religion Great Britain. Arts and religion United States. Religion and science Great Britain. Religion and science United States. RELIGION / Religion & Science. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606621 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674919440 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674919440 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674919440.jpg |
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