April 2, 2024Postcolonial Studies

Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being

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ZKZahir KoliaToronto Metropolitan University

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Theoretical analysis reveals how colonial hierarchy and theology shaped Darwinian evolution, highlighting religious roots within modern scientific views of race.

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Darwin transposed Victorian anthropology and colonial hierarchies into evolutionary theory, linking human and animal intelligence through superstition.
Historical textual analysis reveals that Darwin incorporated phrenology, dream theory, and the apparitional soul into a bio-religious evolutionary model.
The analysis demonstrates that theological assumptions and colonial racial hierarchies remain central to the foundations of modern bio-religious evolution.

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Zahir Kolia (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e70d86b6db643587686bd8 https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2024.2348240

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Theoretical analysis reveals how colonial hierarchy and theology shaped Darwinian evolution, highlighting religious roots within modern scientific views of race.

Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being

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Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being

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