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Author Livingstone, David N., 1953-

Title Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins / David N. Livingstone
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Contents Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record -- Heresy : Isaac La Peyrere 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
Summary 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 - humans inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. This book traces the history of and debates surrounding the idea of non-Adamic humanity
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index
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Subject Human evolution.
Human beings -- Origin.
Theological anthropology.
Ethnology -- Religious aspects.
Evolution (Biology)
Religion and science.
Anthropology, Cultural -- history
Biological Evolution
Ethnicity -- history
Religion and Science
evolution.
Religion and science
Evolution (Biology)
Ethnology -- Religious aspects
Human beings -- Origin
Human evolution
Theological anthropology
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007033706
ISBN 9781421401430
1421401436