Book ID: CBB362428930

Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (2021)

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Carl R. Weinberg (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 366
Language: English

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 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, the 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 the primary target of creationists, and their "ideas have consequences" strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America's culture wars. By taking the anticommunist 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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Authors & Contributors
Numbers, Ronald L.
Morgan, David
Howell, Christopher
Bilgili, Alper
Silva, Ignacio Alberto
Yegge, John G.
Concepts
Creationism
Science and religion
Evolution
Darwinism
Intelligent design (teleology)
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Early modern
Places
United States
Russia
St. Petersburg (Russia)
Turkey
Netherlands
Latin America
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
American Scientific Affiliation
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