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- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Cult archaeology and creationism".
- catalog contributor b10076129.
- catalog contributor b10076130.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 187 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Cult archaeology & creationism.".
- catalog identifier "0877455139 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cult archaeology & creationism.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog relation "Cult archaeology & creationism.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "001.9 20".
- catalog subject "Archaeology and history.".
- catalog subject "Creationism.".
- catalog subject "D10 .C84 1995".
- catalog subject "History Errors, inventions, etc.".
- catalog subject "History Study and teaching United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Cult archaeology & creationism : understanding pseudoscientific beliefs about the past / edited by Francis B. Harrold and Raymond A. Eve.".
- catalog title "Cult archaeology and creationism".
- catalog type "text".