Theory of the creationist/anti-creationist conflict
pp. 87-118
in: , Creationism and anti-creationism in the United States, Berlin, Springer, 2019Abstract
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social fields underlies the theoretical approach to analyze the conflict between professional creationists and anti-creationists in the United States. This choice from among the variety of social scientific theories is not arbitrary, because both the history of the conflict (see Chaps. 3 and 4) and the analysis of previous research on creationism (Chap. 5) provide open questions and problems that can be addressed in the framework of Bourdieu's work.