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Michael Lienesch

Born: November 5, 1948 in Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: He attended University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois.

Biography: Michael Lienesch is an adjunct professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Email: lienesch@email.unc.edu
Website: http://amerstud.unc.edu
Michael Lienesch on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=michael+lienesch


Selected Titles

In the beginning :
ISBN: 080786191X OCLC: 74648984

The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. "In the Beginning" investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design today, Michael Lienesch analyzes one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. Applying social movement theory and using extensive original sources, Lienesch begins with fundamentalism, describing how early twentieth-century fundamentalists worked to form a collective identity, to develop their own institutions, and to turn evolution from an idea into an issue. He traces the emerging antievolution movement through the 1920s, examining debates over Darwinism took place of college campuses and in legislatures throughout the country. In a central chapter, Lienesch retells the story of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial and reinterprets its meaning. He then reviews the mvoement from that time to today, following it through the rise of creation science in the 1960s, the alliance with the New Christian Right in the 1980s, and the development of the theory of intelligent design in our own time. He concludes by speculating on its place in the politics of the twenty-first century. In the Beginning is an essential source for understanding past, present, and future debates over the teaching of evolution. -- from dust jacket.

  New order of the ages :
ISBN: 0691006113 OCLC: 17506359

Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. : 1988.

New order of the ages :
ISBN: 140085153X OCLC: 889247267

Redeeming America :
ISBN: 0807844284 OCLC: 27225297

University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC : ©1993.

A balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade.

 

 

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