Dealing with Darwin : place, politics, and rhetoric in religious engagements with evolution / / David N. Livingstone

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792165603321
• Autore: Livingstone David N.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4214-1327-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Collana: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
• Disciplina: 231.7/652088285
• Soggetti: Evolution - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Dealing with Darwin: locating encounters with evolution -- Edinburgh, evolution, and cannibalistic nostalgia -- Belfast, the Parliament of Science, and the winter of discontent -- Toronto, Knox, and Bacon's bequest -- Columbia, Woodrow, and the legacy of the lost cause -- Princeton, Darwinism, and the short horn cattle -- Darwinian engagements: place, politics, rhetoric.