Adam's ancestors
Subtitle: race, religion, and the politics of human origins
By: David N. Livingstone.
Series: Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780801888137
Subjects: Ethnology -- Religious aspects; Theological anthropology; Human beings -- Origin; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record; title: Heresy : Isaac La Peyrère and the pre-Adamite scandal; title: Polity : the cultural politics of the Adamic narrative; title: Apologetics : pre-Adamism and the harmony of science and religion; title: Anthropology : Adam, Adamites, and the science of ethnology; title: Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam; title: Bloodlines : pre-Adamism and the politics of racial supremacy; title: Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-Adamite discourse; title: Dimensions : concluding reflections.