B.H. Roberts, Moral Geography, and the Making of a Modern Racist
Contributors: Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781527578678
Description: A transdisciplinary Mormon history, this book is a work of American religious history, theology, science history, and cultural and historical geography. It deconstructs the ""race"" creationism, White supremacy, and Christian imperialism of leading interwar Mormon theologian B.H. Roberts. Roberts hoped to introduce the front-rank post-Darwinian, scientific, and philosophical postulates of his time--polygeny, preadamitism, electromagnetism, idealism, the multiverse, infinity, and interstellar travel--to an increasingly fundamentalist Mormon establishment. Church authorities, however, including
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Dedication; title: Epigraph; title: Table of Contents; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: A Brief Biography of Professor Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1; title: Chapter 2; title: Chapter 3; title: Chapter 4; title: Colour Centrefold; title: Chapter 5; title: Chapter 6; title: Chapter 7; title: Chapter 8; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index