ISBN:
9780801888137
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0801888131
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 301 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
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24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Hart, Mitchell B. 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
Series Statement:
Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
DDC:
202/.2
Keywords:
Ethnology Religious aspects
;
Theological anthropology
;
Human beings Origin
;
Human evolution
;
Ethnology Religious aspects
;
Theological anthropology
;
Human beings Origin
;
Human evolution
;
La Peyrère, Isaac de 1594-1676
;
Präadamit
;
Theologische Anthropologie
;
Urmensch
;
Adam Biblische Person
;
Rassentheorie
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record -- Heresy : Isaac La Peyrère 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index
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