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Author Veldman, Robin Globus, author

Title The gospel of climate skepticism : why evangelical Christians oppose action on climate change / Robin Globus Veldman
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Contents The end-time apathy hypothesis -- Practical environmentalism -- End-time beliefs and climate change -- The embattled mentality and climate skepticism -- How evangelical subcultural identity sustains climate skepticism -- Salt and light: skeptical environmental stewards of the Southern Baptist Convention -- Preaching the gospel of climate skepticism -- Awakening the sleeping giant
Summary "Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship pointed to factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to big government, and theology. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, The Gospel of Climate Skepticism reveals the extent to which climate skepticism and anti-environmentalism are not simply side effects of cognitive and doctrinal influences, but have become embedded in the social world and identity of many conservative evangelicals. Upending an assumption widely held by both scholars and the public--that skepticism is simply a side-effect of evangelicals' political or theological conservatism--the book shows that between 2006 and 2015, leaders and pundits associated with the Christian Right promoted skepticism widely as the biblical position on climate change. The Gospel of Climate Skepticism offers a compelling portrait of how during a critical period of recent history, political and religious interests intersected to prevent evangelicals from offering a unified voice in support of legislative action to address climate change"--Provided by publisher
Analysis anti environmentalism
anti science attitudes
aversion to big government
climate change
climate skepticism
climatology
compelling
conservative evangelicals and climate skepticism
conservative evangelicals
prevent evangelicals from climate change support
promoted skepticism as biblical position
science and religion
theology
white evangelicals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Anti-environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Christian conservatism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
RELIGION -- Religion & Science.
Christian conservatism
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019980084
ISBN 9780520972803
0520972805