Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America / / Carl R. Weinberg.
"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"--
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca [New York] : : Cornell University Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and American Public Life
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of 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.