"A splendid norm": Human Plants and the Eugenic Secular, 1906–1926
This article analyzes eugenics and the secular in early twentieth-century California through the career of Luther Burbank. Burbank was a famous plant breeder who cultivated a theory of human progress based on his breeding work. For him, humans were part of an always-evolving and immanently spiritual...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 1, Pages: 218-247 |
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Burbank, Luther 1849-1926
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/ Eugenics
/ Secularism
/ Biopolitics
/ Evolutionary biology
/ Progress idea
/ History 1906-1926
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CF Christianity and Science KBQ North America NCC Social ethics NCJ Ethics of science TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
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