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Perspective comparate privind eugenia și religia
Eugenics and Religion in Comparative Perspectives

Author(s): Ferencz Iozsef Truţa
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of ideas, Social history, Religion and science , Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: eugenic movement; religious rhetoric; Catholic Church; Protestant Church; Orthodox Church;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents comparatively the aspirations of the eugenicists to transform eugenics into a true religion, the interaction of eugenics with religion, but also the way in which various churches from Romania and Hungary perceived Galton's science and how they reacted to the eugenics movement.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 36-61
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Romanian
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