THE END OF THE SOUL: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France
Jennifer Michael Hecht, Author . Columbia Univ. $29.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-231-12846-9
In late 19th-century France, the Catholic Church, which had once been revered as an authority in political and religious matters, found itself under attack from many sides. Chief among its antagonists was the Society of Anthropology in Paris, founded by Paul Broca, many of whose members took it upon themselves to de-Christianize the republic and elevate the new scientific study of human origins to a kind of religion. The result, according to historian Hecht (author also of the forthcoming
Reviewed on: 06/09/2003
Release date: 06/01/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 416 pages - 9780231128469
Paperback - 402 pages - 9780231128476
Other - 416 pages - 9780231502382