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Creating the Creation Museum - Kathleen C. Oberlin

Creating the Creation Museum

How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life
Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2020
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0570-9 (ISBN)
CHF 41,85 inkl. MwSt
Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum

In Creating the Creation Museum, Kathleen C. Oberlin shows us how the largest Creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG), built a museum—which has had over three million visitors—to make its movement mainstream. She takes us behind the scenes, vividly bringing the museum to life by detailing its infamous exhibits on human fossils, dinosaur remains, and more.

Drawing on over three years of research at the Creation Museum, where she was granted rare access to AiG’s leadership, Oberlin examines how the museum convincingly reframes scientific facts, such as modeling itself on traditional natural history museums. Through a unique historical dataset of over 1,000 internal documents from creationist organizations and an analysis of media coverage, Creating the Creation Museum shows how the museum works as a site of social movement activity and a place to contest the secular mainstream. Oberlin ultimately argues that the Creation Museum has real-world consequences in today’s polarized era.

Kathleen C. Oberlin is a researcher based in Chicago. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Grinnell College.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 51 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-4798-0570-X / 147980570X
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-0570-9 / 9781479805709
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