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Divine Variations - How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Paperback)
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Divine Variations - How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Paperback)
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Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of
scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of
scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel
uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought
and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference. He
argues that, instead of a rupture between religion and modern
biology on the question of human origins, modern scientific
theories of race are, in fact, an extension of Christian
intellectual history. Keel's study draws on ancient and early
modern theological texts and biblical commentaries, works in
Christian natural philosophy, seminal studies in ethnology and
early social science, debates within twentieth-century public
health research, and recent genetic analysis of population
differences and ancient human DNA. From these sources, Keel
demonstrates that Christian ideas about creation, ancestry, and
universalism helped form the basis of modern scientific accounts of
human diversity-despite the ostensible shift in modern biology
towards scientific naturalism, objectivity, and value neutrality.
By showing the connections between Christian thought and scientific
racial thinking, this book calls into question the notion that
science and religion are mutually exclusive intellectual domains
and proposes that the advance of modern science did not follow a
linear process of secularization.
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