Prohibition and Eugenics: Implicit Religions that Failed
The study of implicit religion has typically examined more recent belief systems with contemporary followers. It is also illuminating to study historic implicit religion that failed. Two of the leading such implicit religions are the alcohol prohibition movement and the eugenics movement. For the fo...
| Published in: | Implicit religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2016]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Prohibition
/ Eugenics
/ Society
/ Improvement
/ Religiosity
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| Further subjects: | B
Prohibition
B alcohol prohibition B Religious Institutions B Alcoholism Religious aspects B Eugenics B Implicit Religion |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The study of implicit religion has typically examined more recent belief systems with contemporary followers. It is also illuminating to study historic implicit religion that failed. Two of the leading such implicit religions are the alcohol prohibition movement and the eugenics movement. For the former, its faithful saw the elimination of alcohol from society as a way of saving the world. For the latter, the elimination of "defective" genes from society would have equally profound consequences. This paper studies the histories of prohibition and eugenics from the perspective of implicit religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.30841 |