Adam's Ancestors Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins【電子書籍】[ David N. Livingstone ]

＜p＞Winner of the Selection for Professional Reading List of the U.S. Marine Corps＜/p＞ ＜p＞Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this engaging and provocative work, David N. Livingstone traces the history of the idea of non-adamic humanity, and the debates surrounding it, from the Middle Ages to the present day. From a multidisciplinary perspective, Livingstone examines how this alternative idea has been used for cultural, religious, and political purposes. He reveals how what began as biblical criticism became a theological apologetic to reconcile religion with scienceーevolution in particularーand was later used to support arguments for white supremacy and segregation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From heresy to orthodoxy, from radicalism to conservatism, from humanitarianism to racis．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る