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The author's extensive fieldwork, mostly as a participating resident of the group's ashram in Haridwar, gives this work descriptive and affective depth. His use of appropriate theories from the social sciences gives the study original insights that will be of use to other ethnographers. This book has potential utility in courses on new religious movements, transnational South Asian spiritual movements, ethnographic methods/theories, and science and religion. - Nova Religio

The Science of Satyug is deeply helpful ... in its depiction of how contemporary India, and much of the world for that matter, is enchanted with science. - Religion The author's extensive fieldwork, mostly as a participating resident of the group's ashram in Haridwar, gives this work descriptive and affective depth. His use of appropriate theories from the social sciences gives the study original insights that will be of use to other ethnographers. This book has potential utility in courses on new religious movements, transnational South Asian spiritual movements, ethnographic methods/theories, and science and religion. - Nova Religio

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Daniel Heifetz teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

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