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"An impressionistic but memorable account of the mid-century negotiations between religion and science in American culture....four decades fraught with great changes in the scientific community....Gilbert does a fine job of tracing these changes and chooses engaging examples to explore Americans' cautious enchantment with science through the 1960s, ranging from fashionable speculation about UFOs to the popularity of Frank Capra's widely seen documentary "Our Mr. Sun."...A provocative and useful study.Gilbert, James is the author of 'Redeeming Culture American Religion in an Age of Science' with ISBN 9780226293202 and ISBN 0226293203.
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