Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin Spiral-Bound | 2022-06-10

Donovan O. Schaefer

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Examining the reception of evolutionary biology, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, Donovan O. Schaefer theorizes the relationship between thinking and feeling by challenging the conventional wisdom that they are separate.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328 pages
ISBN-10: 1478018259
Item Weight: 0.96 lbs
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.68 x 9.0 inches
"Inaugurate[s] a project of secular theorization that adds a distinctive and needed methodological angle to studies of the secular in North America. . . . A must-read for scholars of American religions. . . ."
-Valeria Vergani / American Religion
Donovan O. Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power, also published by Duke University Press, and The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power.