The Religious Preconditions for the Race Concept in Modern Science
The view that science and religion are necessarily in conflict has increasingly lost favor among scholars who have sought more nuanced theoretical frameworks for evaluating the configurations of these two bodies of knowledge in modern life. This article situates, for the first time, the modern study...
| Subtitles: | TERENCE KEEL'S DIVINE VARIATIONS: A SYMPOSIUM |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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| In: |
Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 225-229 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Natural sciences
/ Human being
/ Conception
/ Christianity
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| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Determinism B Epistemology B philosophy of science B Race B Anthropology B Genetics B Biology B Christianity B Culture |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The view that science and religion are necessarily in conflict has increasingly lost favor among scholars who have sought more nuanced theoretical frameworks for evaluating the configurations of these two bodies of knowledge in modern life. This article situates, for the first time, the modern study of race into scholarly assessments on the relations between religion and science. I argue that the formation of the race concept in the minds of Western European and American scientists grew out of and remained indebted to Christian intellectual history. Religion was not subtracted from nor stood in conflict with constructions of race developed across the modern life and health sciences. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12490 |