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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818754403321

Autore

Ruse Michael

Titolo

Darwinism as religion : what literature tells us about evolution / / Michael Ruse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-024104-7

0-19-024105-5

0-19-024103-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

576.82

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and science - Great Britain - History

Religion and literature - Great Britain - History

Evolution (Biology) in literature

Nature in literature

Religion in literature

Religion and science

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

Prologue -- The eighteenth century -- Before Darwin -- The Darwinian theory -- Reception -- God -- Origins -- Humans -- Race and class -- Morality -- Sex -- Sin and redemption -- The future -- Towards the present -- The conflict continues -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Darwinism as Religion argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from the secure world of Christian faith into a darker, less friendly world of chance and lack of meaning.