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Dealing with Darwin - Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Hardcover)
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Dealing with Darwin - Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Hardcover)
Series: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
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Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical
geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious
communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with
Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His
findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford Lectures, transform
our understandings of the relationship between science and
religion. The particulars of place-whether in Edinburgh, Belfast,
Toronto, Princeton, or Columbia, South Carolina-shaped the response
to Darwin's theories. Were they tolerated, repudiated, or welcomed?
Livingstone shows how Darwin was read in different ways, with
meaning distilled from Darwin's texts depending on readers' own
histories-their literary genealogies and cultural preoccupations.
That the theory of evolution fared differently in different places,
Livingstone writes, is "exactly what Darwin might have predicted.
As the theory diffused, it diverged." Dealing with Darwin shows the
profound extent to which theological debates about evolution were
rooted in such matters as anxieties over control of education, the
politics of race relations, the nature of local scientific
traditions, and challenges to traditional cultural identity. In
some settings, conciliation with the new theory, even endorsement,
was possible - demonstrating that attending to the specific nature
of individual communities subverts an inclination to assume a
single relationship between science and religion in general,
evolution and Christianity in particular. Livingstone concludes
with contemporary examples to remind us that what scientists can
say and what others can hear in different venues differ today just
as much as they did in the past.
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