Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America / Carl R. Weinberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and American public life | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (366 pages): illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501759314
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Contents:
Introduction: belaboring Scopes -- Lighting the Darwin fuse -- The lamb-dragon and the devil's poison -- Blood relationship, Bolshevism, and whoopie parties -- The wolf pack and the upas Tree -- Beast ancestry, dangerous triplets, and damnable heresies -- Flood, fruit, and Satan -- Trees, knees, and nurseries -- The nightcrawler, the wedge, and the bloodiest religion -- Epilogue: the baby Christian and the dark place.
Summary: "Red Dynamite examines how opponents of teaching evolutionary science in the United States over the course of the twentieth century used anticommunist politics to demonize Darwinism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction: belaboring Scopes -- Lighting the Darwin fuse -- The lamb-dragon and the devil's poison -- Blood relationship, Bolshevism, and whoopie parties -- The wolf pack and the upas Tree -- Beast ancestry, dangerous triplets, and damnable heresies -- Flood, fruit, and Satan -- Trees, knees, and nurseries -- The nightcrawler, the wedge, and the bloodiest religion -- Epilogue: the baby Christian and the dark place.

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"Red Dynamite examines how opponents of teaching evolutionary science in the United States over the course of the twentieth century used anticommunist politics to demonize Darwinism"-- Provided by publisher.

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