Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins /
Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists - humans inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. This book traces the history of and debates surr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record
- Heresy : Isaac La Peyrere 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.