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Adam's Ancestors : Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421401430
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adam's AncestorsDDC classification:
  • 202.2
LOC classification:
  • BL256 .L58 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 BEGINNINGS: Questioning the Mosaic Record -- 2 HERESY: Isaac La Peyrère and the Pre-Adamite Scandal -- 3 POLITY: The Cultural Politics of the Adamic Narrative -- 4 APOLOGETICS: Pre-Adamism and the Harmony of Science and Religion -- 5 ANTHROPOLOGY: Adam, Adamites, and the Science of Ethnology -- 6 ANCESTORS: Evolution and the Birth of Adam -- 7 BLOODLINES: Pre-Adamism and the Politics of Racial Supremacy -- 8 SHADOWS: The Continuing Legacy of Pre-Adamite Discourse -- 9 DIMENSIONS: Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: He reveals how what began as biblical criticism became a theological apologetic to reconcile religion with science--evolution in particular--and was later used to support arguments for white supremacy and segregation. From heresy to orthodoxy, from radicalism to conservatism, from humanitarianism to racism, Adam's Ancestors tells an intriguing tale of twists and turns in the cultural politics surrounding the age-old question, "Where did we come from?".
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 BEGINNINGS: Questioning the Mosaic Record -- 2 HERESY: Isaac La Peyrère and the Pre-Adamite Scandal -- 3 POLITY: The Cultural Politics of the Adamic Narrative -- 4 APOLOGETICS: Pre-Adamism and the Harmony of Science and Religion -- 5 ANTHROPOLOGY: Adam, Adamites, and the Science of Ethnology -- 6 ANCESTORS: Evolution and the Birth of Adam -- 7 BLOODLINES: Pre-Adamism and the Politics of Racial Supremacy -- 8 SHADOWS: The Continuing Legacy of Pre-Adamite Discourse -- 9 DIMENSIONS: Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

He reveals how what began as biblical criticism became a theological apologetic to reconcile religion with science--evolution in particular--and was later used to support arguments for white supremacy and segregation. From heresy to orthodoxy, from radicalism to conservatism, from humanitarianism to racism, Adam's Ancestors tells an intriguing tale of twists and turns in the cultural politics surrounding the age-old question, "Where did we come from?".

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