Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins

Publication Data

• Title Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins
• Author David N. Livingstone
• Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Baltimore, Md.
• Language English

Contents

Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record
Heresy : Isaac La Peyrère and the pre-Adamite scandal
Polity : the cultural politics of the Adamic narrative
Apologetics : pre-Adamism and the harmony of science and religion
Anthropology : Adam, Adamites, and the science of ethnology
Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam
Bloodlines : pre-Adamism and the politics of racial supremacy
Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-Adamite discourse
Dimensions : concluding reflections.

Topics

• Ethnology :: Religious aspects
• Theological anthropology
• Human beings :: Origin
• Human evolution

Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins by David N. Livingstone. ISBN 9780801888137. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.