Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America

Red Dynamite Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America

"Red Dynamite examines how opponents of teaching evolutionary science in the United States over the course of the twentieth century used anticommunist politics to demonize Darwinism"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weinberg, Carl R., 1962- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021
2021.
Series:Religion and American Public Life
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology) > Political aspects > United States.
Evolution (Biology) > Study and teaching > Political aspects > United States.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 21st century.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
evolutionary thinking, George McCready Price, Marxism, Darwinsim,.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649792206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: belaboring Scopes
  • Lighting the Darwin fuse
  • The lamb-dragon and the devil's poison
  • Blood relationship, Bolshevism, and whoopie parties
  • The wolf pack and the upas Tree
  • Beast ancestry, dangerous triplets, and damnable heresies
  • Flood, fruit, and Satan
  • Trees, knees, and nurseries
  • The nightcrawler, the wedge, and the bloodiest religion
  • Epilogue: the baby Christian and the dark place.

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