American Genesis

Jeffrey P. Moran

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Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Oxford University Press Inc
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
224
Dimensioni:
237 X 160
Codice EAN:
9780195183498
Generi:
History, Social & Economic History Science & Nature, Biology & Life Sciences Religion, Religion-General & Miscellaneous
Altre informazioni:
13 halftones
Prezzo di copertina:
£ 19,99

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Teaching evolution in the public schools has been a perennial problem in America. From the courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, to modern fights over intelligent design and creation science, evolution and its critics have battled over the role of science and religion in American public life. But the antievolution controversies are not merely political problems. In American Genesis, Jeffrey P. Moran explores the ways in which the evolution struggles also have reverberated beyond the confines of legislatures and courthouses. In addition to offering a careful analysis of antievolutionism's ideological and strategic development, this wide-ranging social history argues that evolution's reception has been shaped by four peculiarly American forces: a diverse population, regional divisions, a sometimes shaky Protestant dominance, and a tradition of democratic populism. In each area, the battles over evolution exposed and polarized existing divisions. Using extensive research in newspapers, periodicals, and archives, Moran investigates the critical influence that gender ideals have had in antievolutionism, as well as the complex role women play in modern controversies. Similarly, he analyzes the unexamined relationship between African Americans and antievolution. Moran's reading of regional differences explains how fundamentalism, a movement born in the North, came to flourish primarily in the South. Throughout the nation, Moran argues, antievolutionist ideology has retained strong continuities from its roots in the early twentieth century, despite its modern packaging as creation science or Intelligent Design. Finally, Moran balances scholars' understandable focus on the unfamiliar territory of antievolutionism by considering the self-conceptions and preconceptions of modern scientists as activists, teachers, and bystanders in the struggle.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: DARWIN COMES TO AMERICA; CHAPTER ONE: MONKEYS AND MOTHERS; CHAPTER TWO: REGIONALISM AND THE ANTIEVOLUTION IMPULSE; CHAPTER THREE: FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE OF THE RACE; CHAPTER FOUR: DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION; CHAPTER FIVE: CREATIONISM AND THE CAMPUS; NOTES; INDEX

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Just when I thought there was little more to be said about creationism in America along comes Jeffrey Moran's sparkling new book, American Genesis. It not only introduces previously overlooked groups such as women and African Americans but also sheds welcome new light on the entire century-old controversy. -- Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists

How has antievolution survived what Walter Lippmann called 'the acids of modernity'? Looking carefully at American diversity-racial, religious, and regional-Jeffrey P. Moran provides our best set of answers since Lippmann himself. Modernity has its own chemistry, to be sure, but it will never dissolve our deepest differences. And nobody has told that tale with more originality--or more sensitivity--than Jeff Moran. -- Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University

There is a long and disappointing history of antievolutionism in the United States, but many components of the story are unfamiliar. The role of region, women, and race, just for starters, deserves to be better known, as do the little-known stories of evangelical scholars who accept evolution. Moran's book is a welcome addition to this scholarship. I learned a lot from it. -- Eugenie C. Scott, National Center for Science Education