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IN WHAT SENSE EXACTLY DID CHRISTIANITY GIVE US RACIAL SCIENCE?
Author(s) -
Fehige Yiftach
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12488
Subject(s) - christianity , secularization , modernity , historiography , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , religious studies , political science , law
In my contribution to the interdisciplinary discussion of Terence Keel's study on the Christian roots of modern racial science, I focus on its philosophical assumptions and implications. My primary concern is to relate the findings of this study to recent appraisals of the philosophical notion of a secularized Western modernity. I raise a twofold question: in what sense can one say that traditional Christianity links intimately to modern racial science, and which historiographical decisions inform the substantiation of such links?

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