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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Religion and American Public LifePublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (366 p.) : 13 b&w halftonesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501759307
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 324.1/3 23
LOC classification:
  • E743.5 .W34 2021
  • E743.5
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Belaboring Scopes -- 1. Lighting the Darwin Fuse -- 2. The Lamb-Dragon and the Devil's Poison -- 3. Blood Relationship, Bolshevism, and Whoopie Parties -- 4. The Wolf Pack and the Upas Tree -- 5. Beast Ancestry, Dangerous Triplets, and Damnable Heresies -- 6. Flood, Fruit, and Satan -- 7. Trees, Knees, and Nurseries -- 8. The Nightcrawler, the Wedge, and the Bloodiest Religion -- Epilogue: The Baby Christian and the Dark Place -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral social, sexual, and political behavior. The "fruits" of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and religion, creationists were practicing politics. Their anticommunist campaign, often infused with conspiracy theory, gained power from the fact that the Marxist founders, early Bolshevik leaders, and their American allies were staunch evolutionists.   Using the Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a starting point, Red Dynamite traces the politically explosive union of Darwinism and communism over the next century. Across those years, social evolution was creationists' primary target, and their "ideas have consequences" strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America's culture wars. By taking the anti-communist arguments of creationists seriously, Weinberg reveals a neglected dimension of antievolutionism and illuminates a source of the creationist movement's continuing strength.  
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Belaboring Scopes -- 1. Lighting the Darwin Fuse -- 2. The Lamb-Dragon and the Devil's Poison -- 3. Blood Relationship, Bolshevism, and Whoopie Parties -- 4. The Wolf Pack and the Upas Tree -- 5. Beast Ancestry, Dangerous Triplets, and Damnable Heresies -- 6. Flood, Fruit, and Satan -- 7. Trees, Knees, and Nurseries -- 8. The Nightcrawler, the Wedge, and the Bloodiest Religion -- Epilogue: The Baby Christian and the Dark Place -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral social, sexual, and political behavior. The "fruits" of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and religion, creationists were practicing politics. Their anticommunist campaign, often infused with conspiracy theory, gained power from the fact that the Marxist founders, early Bolshevik leaders, and their American allies were staunch evolutionists.   Using the Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a starting point, Red Dynamite traces the politically explosive union of Darwinism and communism over the next century. Across those years, social evolution was creationists' primary target, and their "ideas have consequences" strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America's culture wars. By taking the anti-communist arguments of creationists seriously, Weinberg reveals a neglected dimension of antievolutionism and illuminates a source of the creationist movement's continuing strength.  

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