| Description |
1 online resource (x, 188 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Impure thoughts : Johann Blumenbach and the birth of racial science -- Superseding Christian truth : the quiet revolution of nineteenth century American science of race -- The ghost of Christian creationism : racial dispositions and progressive era public health research -- Noah's mongrel children : ancient DNA and the persistence of Christian forms in modern biology -- Beyond the religious pursuit of race. |
| Summary |
'Divine Variations' offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference. He argues that, instead of a rupture between religion and modern biology on the question of human origins, modern scientific theories of race are, in fact, an extension of Christian intellectual history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Race -- Historiography.
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Race -- Historiography. |
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Race. |
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Religion and science -- History.
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Religion and science. |
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History. |
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Eurocentrism -- History.
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Eurocentrism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Keel, Terence. Divine variations. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9780804795401 (DLC) 2017012164 (OCoLC)978712917 |
| ISBN |
9781503604377 (electronic book) |
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1503604373 (electronic book) |
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9780804795401 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0804795401 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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