The Center for Religion and the Human announced Terence Keel’s Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Stanford University Press, 2018) as winner of the second annual Iris Book Award. Divine Variations exposes longstanding flaws in our collective beliefs about science as culturally and religiously neutral. Keel weaves together medical anthropology and the history of science to show how scientific theories about race and human evolution have remained tethered to religious assumptions.
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