TY  - GEN
T1  - The end of the soul : scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France
A1  - Hecht, Jennifer Michael, 1965-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm53118940
AB  - On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think of as anthropology, which the group's members helped to develop, had its genesis in aggressive, evangelical atheism.
OP  - 402
CN  - BL2765.F8 H43 2003eb
SN  - 0231502389
SN  - 9780231502382
SN  - 9780231128469
SN  - 0231128460
KW  - Atheism : France : History.
KW  - Religion and science : France : History.
KW  - Anthropology : France : History.
KW  - France : Religion.
KW  - Athéisme : France : Histoire.
KW  - Religion et sciences : France : Histoire.
KW  - Anthropologie : France : Histoire.
KW  - RELIGION : Atheism.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : General.
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - France
KW  - Antropologie.
KW  - Atheïsme.
KW  - Geloof en wetenschap.
KW  - Frankrijk.
KW  - History
ER  -