Red Dynamite Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America

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 and even bestial social, sexual, and poli...

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Main Author: Weinberg, Carl R. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2021
Series:Religion and American Public Life
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