Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States
A Sociology of Conflict
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Beschreibung
This book deals with professional creationist and anti-creationist organizations in America, and describes how the “conflict between science and religion” is the result of the interaction between these two groups. It retraces their history from the 1960s onwards, and identifies crucial turning points that led to new forms of creationism and anti-creationism. It explains their strategies, labels and arguments as effects of this history and structure. Taking a field theoretical approach, the book avoids problems of prior creationism research, making it possible to identify the mechanisms through which creationism generates new strategies, arguments, and media output. The field model is used as an interpretive tool to make sense of some of the most important creationist and anti-creationist publications and media statements.
This book deals with professional creationist and anti-creationist organizations in America, and describes how the “conflict between science and religion” is the result of the interaction between these two groups. It retraces their history from the 1960s onwards, and identifies crucial turning points that led to new forms of creationism and anti-creationism. It explains their strategies, labels and arguments as effects of this history and structure. Taking a field theoretical approach, the book avoids problems of prior creationism research, making it possible to identify the mechanisms through which creationism generates new strategies, arguments, and media output. The field model is used as an interpretive tool to make sense of some of the most important creationist and anti-creationist publications and media statements.
Is the first to map the professional creationist scene in the United States using social theory Considers professional anti-creationism in the United States Pays systematic attention to the interplay between creationists and anti-creationists
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Tom Kaden
Themen in »Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States«
Answers in Genesis Creationism Creation vs. Evolution Culture War Intelligent Design New Atheism Nonoverlapping Magisteria Science and Religion Sociological Field Theory Theistic Evolution