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Paranoid science : the Christian Right's war on reality /
Explores the Christian Right's fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemy. For decades, the Christian Right's high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to ban the teaching of evolution in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction. Paranoid-style politics
- Updating Hofstadter's theory
- The paranoid style in American evangelicalism
- The Christan Right within the American evangelical elite
- The Christian Right's paranoid science agenda
- The Christian Right's war on reality
- 1. Fear of a Darwinist Culture : The Intelligent Design Movement. Protestantism and Enlightenment "faith" in science
- Intelligent design takes flight
- Phillip E. Johnson's paranoid vision. Stage 1 : Laying the foundation ; Stage 2 : A fully paranoid worldview ; Stage 3 : Reaching new audiences ; Stage 4 : Twenty-first-century optimism ; Stage 5 : Intelligent design in the post-9/11 era ; Stage 6 : Engaging the new atheism ; Conclusion : Intelligent design's paranoid foundation
- Reaching for scientific credibility
- Intelligent design on a cosmic scale
- Intelligent design and its critics
- Intelligent design's atheist "frenemies"
- The Dover Trial
- Intelligent design goes Hollywood
- The continued battle over public school curricula
- Intelligent design's identity crisis. Division of labor ; Discursive tacking ; Distinguishing between supposed primary and secondary missions ; Conclusion : Even worse than a Trojan Horse
- Reality check : How secular is the academy?
- Unmasking "theistic realism"
- Fair-weather postmodernists
- Conclusion
- 2. Sex, Sin, and Science : The Persistence of the Ex-Gay Movement. Psychiatry and homosexuality
- The formation of NARTH
- Ex-gay ministries
- The evangelical embrace of "change"
- The ex-gay literature : Religious and scientific arguments. Countering the use of science by Christians who affirm homosexuality ; The Bible as a source of data on sexuality ; Scientific proof that homosexuality is contrary to God's will ; Rejecting mainstream psychiatry and psychology
- The ex-gay movement's identity dilemma. Division of labor ; Distinguishing between supposed primary and secondary missions
- Managing failure
- Selective skepticism of psychological theories
- Creationist assumptions
- Lies, damn lies, and statistics
- Conclusion
- 3. "Our Way or a Brave New World" : Christian Right Bioethics. Stem cell research : Basic issues
- From abortion to embryonic stem cells
- Arguments against embryonic stem cell research and cloning
- The dangers of eugenics and transhumanism
- Euthanasia's slippery slope
- Why the slippery slope is slippery logic
- Is Oregon the new Netherlands? And is the Netherlands as bad as the Christian Right claims?
- Moral hypocrisy
- Conclusion
- 4. Seeing Red Over Green Evangelicals : The Crusade Against Environmentalism. American evangelics and the environment in the twentieth century
- The battle for the evangelical center
- Explaining the evangelical climate change fault line
- The Cornwall Alliance : Core beliefs before the Green Dragon. Dominion theology ; God designed and sustains the Earth ; Fighting climate change will hurt the poor ; Climate change skepticism
- The Cornucopian connection
- Enter the Green Dragon
- Assessing the evangelical rank and file
- The impossible defense of dominion theology
- Still more fair-weather postmodernists
- Beisner's "total" fabrication
- Conclusion
- Conclusion. The Purpose-Driven Life of unreality
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind revisited
- Looking forward
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author.