Genetics and Faith
Religious Enchantment through Creative Engagement with Molecular Biology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3015075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen E Jenkins (0000-0002-3512-7728, William & Mary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1693-1712 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sof.2007.0072 |
| OpenAlex | W1992505611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
In this article I develop heuristic types for understanding how the U.S. evangelical Christian subculture engages the newer science of molecular biology as it works to legitimate and enchant religious worldview: 1.) symbolic engagement, employing genes and DNA as sacred icon; 2.) disputatious engagement, debating genetic essentialism and scientific naturalism; and 3.) performative engagement, fortifying theism through scientific performance. These types contribute to recent theories of religious strength and identity by providing a framework for exploring the complexity and quality of creative engagement efforts in thriving religious subcultures. I argue that the power of these types to have an impact on audiences lies in sophisticated subcultural levels of discursive engagement through media employment as well as cursory lay knowledge of molecular biology and a pervasive cultural faith and doubt in scientific advancement
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Faith · Identity (music) · Naturalism · Performative utterance · Sociology · Theism · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
American evangelicalism
Frontiers in social movement theory
Natural theology
Cultural Boundaries of Science
American Evangelicalism
The DNA Mystique
Religious Identities and Religious Institutions
The structure of scientific revolutions
The sacred canopy
The woman in the body
The social construction of reality
Sociological ambivalence;and other essays.
Frame analysis
Enchanting a Disenchanted World
Seeker Churches
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality
Biomedicalization
The social construction of reality
Spiritual Marketplace
Culture in Action
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
Webs of Reality
Genetic Fundamentalism or the Cult of the Gene
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
From Max Weber
The Scientific Revolution
When Sheila's a Lesbian
The Politics of the Willow Creek Association Pastors
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |