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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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Baltimore
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Edition: | Johns Hopkins paperback edition |
| 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 |
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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: | ISBN der früheren Ausgabe (hardcover), © 2008: 0-8018-8813-1, 978-0-8018-8813-7 Literaturverzeichnis Seite 255-285 Mit Register |
| Physical Description: | x, 301 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0065-0 978-1-4214-0065-5 |
