Righting America at the Creation Museum by Susan L Trollinger

Righting America at the Creation Museum by Susan L Trollinger

This compelling book reveals that the Creation Museum is a remarkably complex phenomenon, at once a natural history museum at odds with contemporary science, an extended brief for the Bible as the literally true and errorless word of God, and a powerful and unflinching argument on behalf of the Christian right.

The material unfolds engagingly because the Trollingers confront and rebut pseudoscientific zealotry..so readers emerge from our deep exposure to this culture feeling triumphant, sane, as we align with the authors in the camp of science and reason. Times Higher Education [T]he most compelling elements of the book focus on the history, evolution and construction of the museum as a cultural space and then explore how the Creation Museum fits into that history. ...As the Trollingers show repeatedly, Creationism has evolved a posture that steadfastly sidesteps any kind of serious debate. ...The book is at its best when it situates the Creation Museum within the longer history of how we present objects and organize knowledge. Los Angeles Times More than a tour, Righting America at the Creation Museum is about as thorough and detailed a text-based analysis of the Creation Museum as anyone could want. This book is a perceptive critical analysis of the museum's purposes, methods, and potential impact. Free Inquiry

Susan L. Trollinger is an associate professor of English at the University of Dayton. She is the author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia. William Vance Trollinger, Jr., is a professor of history at the University of Dayton. He is the author of God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism.

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ISBN 13	9781421419510
ISBN 10	1421419513
Title	Righting America at the Creation Museum
Author	Susan L Trollinger
Series	Medicine Science And Religion In Historical Context
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	2016-07-10
Number of pages	344
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