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Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America /

In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral social, sexual, and political behavior. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weinberg, Carl R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Colección:Religion and American Public Life
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Belaboring Scopes
  • 1. Lighting the Darwin Fuse
  • 2. The Lamb-Dragon and the Devil's Poison
  • 3. Blood Relationship, Bolshevism, and Whoopie Parties
  • 4. The Wolf Pack and the Upas Tree
  • 5. Beast Ancestry, Dangerous Triplets, and Damnable Heresies
  • 6. Flood, Fruit, and Satan
  • 7. Trees, Knees, and Nurseries
  • 8. The Nightcrawler, the Wedge, and the Bloodiest Religion
  • Epilogue: The Baby Christian and the Dark Place
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index