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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cult archaeology & creationism. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1995 (OCoLC)604087793 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Francis B Harrold; Raymond A Eve |
| ISBN: | 0877455139 9780877455134 |
| OCLC Number: | 32313873 |
| Description: | xii, 187 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The nature and dangers of cult archaeology / William H. Stiebing, Jr. -- Scientific creationism : world view, not science / Alice B. Kehoe -- Educational experience and belief in paranormal phenomena / Thomas Gray -- Cult archaeology and creationism : a coordinated research project / Kenneth L. Feder -- East is east and west is west? : a regional comparison of cult belief patterns / Luanne Hudson -- Patterns of creationist belief among college students / Francis B. Harrold and Raymond A. Eve -- ETs, rafts, and runestones : confronting pseudoarchaeology in the classroom / Suzanne Knudson Engler -- A century after Darwin : scientific creationism and academe / Laurie Godfrey and John Cole -- Fantastic archaeology : what should we do about it? / Stephen Williams -- Multiculturalism, cult archaeology, and pseudoscience / Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -- Cult archaeology and creationism in the 1900s and beyond / Francis B. Harrols, Raymond A. Eve, and Geertruida C. de Goede. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Francis B. Harrold and Raymond A. Eve. |
Abstract:
"UFOs and aliens, unexplained mysteries, religious cults, diffusion, creationism. We are all familiar with beliefs about human life that lie outside traditional scientific boundaries. Notions such as these are considered reasonable by vast numbers of us in the western world, in our modern "technological" and "educated" cultures." "Understanding why this should be so and how we as a society might deal with these widespread pseudoscientific beliefs are the subjects at the heart of this study. The authors - specialists in anthropology, archaeology, sociology, psychology, and history - explore creationism, which claims that there is evidence to support a literal interpretation of the origins of the world and of humanity as narrated in the Book of Genesis, and cult archaeology, which encompasses a wide range of fantastic beliefs about our past." "Cult Archaeology and Creationism contains several essays on the history of pseudoscientific beliefs and their current manifestations as well as the results of a unique research project in which students at five campuses across the country were asked about their beliefs and about such background factors as their school experience and religious faith. This expanded edition also includes two new essays, one on Afrocentrism and another that views cult archaeology and creationism in the 1990s and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.
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