Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins /

Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Livingstone, David N., 1953-
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Description:	x, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
Subject:	Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Theological anthropology. Human beings -- Origin. Human evolution. Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Human beings -- Origin. Human evolution. Theological anthropology.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7133294

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ISBN:	9780801888137 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801888131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index.

Table of Contents:

Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record
Heresy : Isaac La Peyrère and the pre-Adamite scandal
Polity : the cultural politics of the Adamic narrative
Apologetics : pre-Adamism and the harmony of science and religion
Anthropology : Adam, Adamites, and the science of ethnology
Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam
Bloodlines : pre-Adamism and the politics of racial supremacy
Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-Adamite discourse
Dimensions : concluding reflections.