Religion, evolution and heredity
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Religion, evolution and heredity
（The journal of religious history, literature and culture : special issue, v. 4,
University of Wales Press, 2018
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Series no. adopts volume number of the journal. (This journal is twice annually, published a special issue as "no. 2")
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Description
This book engages with the relationship between religion, evolution and heredity, by bringing together two of its aspects that are frequently discussed separately: Darwinism and eugenics. It also demonstrates that religion has played a greater role in shaping modern debates on evolution and human improvement than current scholarship has previously acknowledged. Drawing on examples provided by Britain, Italy and Portugal across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the present study provides a fresh discussion of seminal topics such as reproduction, parenthood, the control of population and ideas of human improvement based on eugenics and genetics, which intersected and, at times, dominated the much broader debate between science and religion reignited by the publication of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Acknowledgements
Contributors
Scientific Calvinism: Eugenics as a Secular Religion- Marius Turda
Squaring the Circle? Two Attempts to Reconcile Darwinism and Christianity in Late Victorian Britain - David Redvaldsen
From Biopolitics to Eugenics: The Encyclical Casti Connubii - Emmanuel Betta
Eugenics, Sex Reform, Religion and Anarchism in Portugal -Richard Cleminson
Responsible Parenthood: Reproduction and Religion in Post-War Britain - Patrick T. Merricks
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