David N. Livingstone, “Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
New Books in Biblical Studies
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The Moral Lesson of Pre-Automism
In your book, you discuss notions by racists in the 20th century. How do they make an argument that pre-automism has a moral lesson when it comes to the relation of the races in America in the year 1900? Well, I thought you were in a slightly different direction. Maybe I'm not quite getting this, but in the20th century, of course. As I said, this is a stunning departure from Tereira's original use of choose how remarkably versatile this quite simple idea can be.
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