Adam's ancestors: race, religion, and the politics of human origins
Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record -- Heresy : Isaac La Peyrre and the pre-adamite scandal -- Polity : the cultural politics of the adamic narrative -- Apologetics : pre-adamism and the harmony of science and religion -- Anthropology : Adam, adamites, and the science of ethnology -- Ancestor...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md.
Johns Hopkins University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | Adam's ancestors. Race, religion, and the politics of human origins. By David N. Livingstone. (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) Pp. x+301 incl. 25 ills. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. £23.50. 978 0 8018 8813 7 (2009) (Hart, Mitchell B.)
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| Series/Journal: | Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
La Peyrère, Isaac de 1594-1676
/ Pre-Adamite
B Theological anthropology / Prehistoric man / Adam, Biblical person / Racial theory |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnology
Religious aspects
B Human Evolution B Theological Anthropology B Human Beings Origin |
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| Summary: | Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record -- Heresy : Isaac La Peyrre and the pre-adamite scandal -- Polity : the cultural politics of the adamic narrative -- Apologetics : pre-adamism and the harmony of science and religion -- Anthropology : Adam, adamites, and the science of ethnology -- Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam -- Bloodlines : pre-adamism and the politics of racial supremacy -- Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-adamite discourse -- Dimensions : concluding reflections |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index |
| ISBN: | 0801888131 |