Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States A Sociology of Conflict /

• Main Author: Kaden, Tom (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; United States-Study and teaching.; Religion.; Sociology of Religion.; American Culture.; Religious Studies, general.

This book deals with professional creationist and anti-creationist organizations in America, and describes how the "conflict between science and religion" is the result of the interaction between these two groups. It retraces their history from the 1960s onwards, and identifies crucial tur...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Creationism in the United States of America: An Exposition
• Chapter 2. Creationist Positions
• Chapter 3. Creationist Organizations and Their Modes of Action
• Chapter 4. Anti-Creationism in the United States
• Chapter 5. "Science" and "Religion": The Impasse of Creationism Research
• Chapter 6. A Field Theory of Creationism and Anti-Creationism
• Chapter 7. Creationist and Anti-Creationist History Constructs
• Chapter 8. Creationist and Anti-Creationist Order Constructs
• Chapter 9. Creationist and Anti-Creationist Subject Constructs
• Chapter 10. Conclusion.