Dealing with Darwin : place, politics, and rhetoric in religious engagements with evolution /

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"Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Livingstone, David N., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Series:Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882
Evolution > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Évolution > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Evolution > Religious aspects > Christianity
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Dealing with Darwin: locating encounters with evolution
  • Edinburgh, evolution, and cannibalistic nostalgia
  • Belfast, the Parliament of Science, and the winter of discontent
  • Toronto, Knox, and Bacon's bequest
  • Columbia, Woodrow, and the legacy of the lost cause
  • Princeton, Darwinism, and the short horn cattle
  • Darwinian engagements: place, politics, rhetoric.

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