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The scientific spirit of American humanism /
"A study in the history of science, this book explores the worldview and activism of a like-minded group of American intellectuals living in the twentieth century--from liberal Unitarians of the 1910s to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov in the 1980s. It follows the fortunes of a few generations of m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The scientific spirit of American humanism / |c Stephen P. Weldon. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction. The scientific spirit of American humanism -- Liberal Christianity and the frontiers of American belief (1800-1920) -- The birth of religious humanism (1900-1920) -- Manifesto for an age of science (1920-1933) -- Philosophers in the pulpit (1910-1940) -- Humanists at war (1935-1945) -- Surviving the nuclear age (1945-1960) -- Scientific humanism and biological man (1957-1972) -- Inside the humanist counterculture (1956-1973) -- Skeptics in the age of Aquarius (1974-1985) -- The fundamentalist challenge (1968-1987) -- Fighting creationism and fundamentalist pseudoscience (1968-1987) -- The humanist ethos of science in modern America -- Epilogue: Science and millennial humanism. | |
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