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If history runs in cycles, nowhere is the phenomenon better displayed than in the perennial renewal of tensions between creationists and evolutionists. These adversaries (warring over school curricula in Kansas at present) would do well to read Ronald Numbers and John Stenhouse's "Disseminating Darwinism."This collection of essays by a variety of academics and edited by Number and Stenhouse, discusses the how religion, gender, and geography affected different communities' reception of evolution. Both sides in the current evolution debate will recognize the battles these essays describe. While one side missteps by supporting personalities-thereby losing influence for political reasons rather than for the merits of their views, the other blindly defends its turf-often universities-against the encroachment of outside forces. Those who find a third way, like theologians who devised a form of theistic evolutionism, wind up being the most popular and instrumental. Anyone, academic or otherwise, who is fascinated with the history of antagonism over this scientific revolution will find "Disseminating Darwin" instructive and compelling.
Review
"Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Region, and Gender is one of the most important books in recent years on and around Darwinism. ...this volume is without competitor." Victorian Studies
"When it would seem impossible to introduce new factors into our understanding of Darwinism, these essays do just that. In remarkably lively and unexpected ways, they demonstrate the varying responses to Darwin's thought arising from diverse geographic, ethnic, and religious communities. They provide new paths to understanding Darwinism as the debate over those ideas enters the new century." Frank M. Turner,Yale University
"When it would seem impossible to introduce new factors into our understanding of Darwinism, these essays do just that. In remarkably lively and unexpected ways, they demonstrate the varying responses to Darwin's thought arising from diverse geographic, ethnic, and religious communities. They provide new paths to understanding Darwinism as the debate over those ideas enters the new century." Frank M. Turner,Yale University
"This is just the book we need for exploring the controversial reception--and rejection--of Darwinism across the globe. The authors show how there never was a simple or static Darwin: that his ideas changed as much as those of his famous defenders, and his exciting Origin of Species inspired very different responses in different places. These leading scholars take us far into the history of diverse cultures and different social groupings, ranging from Canada to the American South, from Englishwomen to blacks, Roman Catholics, and Protestant Irish, looking at the views of local communities and revealing the defining features of heated Darwin debates as they were experienced by real people, in real places." British Journal for the History of Science
"This is just the book we need for exploring the controversial reception--and rejection--of Darwinism across the globe. The authors show how there never was a simple or static Darwin: that his ideas changed as much as those of his famous defenders, and his exciting Origin of Species inspired very different responses in different places. These leading scholars take us far into the history of diverse cultures and different social groupings, ranging from Canada to the American South, from Englishwomen to blacks, Roman Catholics, and Protestant Irish, looking at the views of local communities and revealing the defining features of heated Darwin debates as they were experienced by real people, in real places." British Journal for the History of Science
"...this is a careful, rigorous, and valuable resource." Religious Studies Review
See all Editorial Reviews
If history runs in cycles, nowhere is the phenomenon better displayed than in the perennial renewal of tensions between creationists and evolutionists. These adversaries (warring over school curricula in Kansas at present) would do well to read Ronald Numbers and John Stenhouse's "Disseminating Darwinism."This collection of essays by a variety of academics and edited by Number and Stenhouse, discusses the how religion, gender, and geography affected different communities' reception of evolution. Both sides in the current evolution debate will recognize the battles these essays describe. While one side missteps by supporting personalities-thereby losing influence for political reasons rather than for the merits of their views, the other blindly defends its turf-often universities-against the encroachment of outside forces. Those who find a third way, like theologians who devised a form of theistic evolutionism, wind up being the most popular and instrumental. Anyone, academic or otherwise, who is fascinated with the history of antagonism over this scientific revolution will find "Disseminating Darwin" instructive and compelling.
Review
"Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Region, and Gender is one of the most important books in recent years on and around Darwinism. ...this volume is without competitor." Victorian Studies
"When it would seem impossible to introduce new factors into our understanding of Darwinism, these essays do just that. In remarkably lively and unexpected ways, they demonstrate the varying responses to Darwin's thought arising from diverse geographic, ethnic, and religious communities. They provide new paths to understanding Darwinism as the debate over those ideas enters the new century." Frank M. Turner,Yale University
"When it would seem impossible to introduce new factors into our understanding of Darwinism, these essays do just that. In remarkably lively and unexpected ways, they demonstrate the varying responses to Darwin's thought arising from diverse geographic, ethnic, and religious communities. They provide new paths to understanding Darwinism as the debate over those ideas enters the new century." Frank M. Turner,Yale University
"This is just the book we need for exploring the controversial reception--and rejection--of Darwinism across the globe. The authors show how there never was a simple or static Darwin: that his ideas changed as much as those of his famous defenders, and his exciting Origin of Species inspired very different responses in different places. These leading scholars take us far into the history of diverse cultures and different social groupings, ranging from Canada to the American South, from Englishwomen to blacks, Roman Catholics, and Protestant Irish, looking at the views of local communities and revealing the defining features of heated Darwin debates as they were experienced by real people, in real places." British Journal for the History of Science
"This is just the book we need for exploring the controversial reception--and rejection--of Darwinism across the globe. The authors show how there never was a simple or static Darwin: that his ideas changed as much as those of his famous defenders, and his exciting Origin of Species inspired very different responses in different places. These leading scholars take us far into the history of diverse cultures and different social groupings, ranging from Canada to the American South, from Englishwomen to blacks, Roman Catholics, and Protestant Irish, looking at the views of local communities and revealing the defining features of heated Darwin debates as they were experienced by real people, in real places." British Journal for the History of Science
"...this is a careful, rigorous, and valuable resource." Religious Studies Review
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