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Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States

A Sociology of Conflict

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  • Is the first to map the professional creationist scene in the United States using social theory
  • Considers professional anti-creationism in the United States
  • Pays systematic attention to the interplay between creationists and anti-creationists

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Tom Kaden
    Pages 1-6
  3. Creationist and Anti-Creationist Ideas and Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Creationist Positions

      • Tom Kaden
      Pages 9-20
  4. Theorizing the Creationist Conflict

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
  5. Creationist and Anti-Creationist History, Order and Exemplar Constructs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Conclusion

      • Tom Kaden
      Pages 167-169
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 171-205

About this book

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 turning points that led to new forms of creationism and anti-creationism. It explains their strategies, labels and arguments as effects of this history and structure. Taking a field theoretical approach, the book avoids problems of prior creationism research, making it possible to identify the mechanisms through which creationism generates new strategies, arguments, and media output. The field model is used as an interpretive tool to make sense of some of the most important creationist and anti-creationist publications and media statements.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Sociology, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany

    Tom Kaden

About the author

Tom Kaden is Research Affiliate at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States

  • Book Subtitle: A Sociology of Conflict

  • Authors: Tom Kaden

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99380-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99379-9Published: 02 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07596-5Published: 22 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99380-5Published: 20 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 205

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Original German edition published by Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2015

  • Topics: Sociology of Religion, American Culture, Religious Studies, general

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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