{"product_id":"righting-america-at-the-creation-susan-l-trollinger-9781421419510","title":"Righting America at the Creation Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does the popularity of the Creation Museum tell us about the appeal of the Christian right?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by themed topiary gardens and a petting zoo with camel rides, the site conjures up images of a religious Disneyland. Inside, visitors are met by dinosaurs at every turn and by a replica of the Garden of Eden that features the Tree of Life, the serpent, and Adam and Eve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRighting America at the Creation Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., take readers on a fascinating tour of the museum. The Trollingers vividly describe and analyze its vast array of exhibits, placards, dioramas, and videos, from the Culture in Crisis Room, where videos depict sinful characters watching pornography or considering abortion, to the Natural Selection Room, where placards argue that natural selection doesn't lead to evolution. The book also traces the rise of creationism and the history of fundamentalism in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compelling book reveals that the Creation Museum is a remarkably complex phenomenon, at once a \"natural history\" museum at odds with contemporary science, an extended brief for the Bible as the literally true and errorless word of God, and a powerful and unflinching argument on behalf of the Christian right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan L. Trollinger,William Vance Trollinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421419513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421419510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Susan L. Trollinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48444788506879,"sku":"9781421419510","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e906c095-205c-4ebc-b264-dd9fddd38cc8.jpg?v=1777214560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/righting-america-at-the-creation-susan-l-trollinger-9781421419510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}