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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Livingstone, David N., 1953- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Collection:Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.