William Sims Bainbridge
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Language
English
Description
This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting computer science, social science, and the humanities.
In our time of great and uncertain change, business, government, and education must partner in many forms of technical and cultural convergence—for the benefit of both human welfare and economic recovery.
This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting computer science, social science, and the humanities. One popular...
Author
Language
English
Description
Who is seeking to destroy all esoteric religious movements, starting with The Process Church of the Final Judgement? The Process was the most fascinating innovative cult of the 1960s, then vanished for four decades before being virtually reborn by the use of information technology. Revival seems to be fiction, yet it's based on fact and explores the implications of the internet, and the disintegration of conventional faiths. As reported in the author's...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Description
Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and...
