American Evangelicalism, Apocalypticism, and the Anthropocene

Ronan, Marisa

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“…A second prominent theological explanation is that end time beliefs—the belief that Jesus will return to earth soon—is a key factor preventing evangelicals from caring about long‐term environmental problems like climate change (e.g., Kearns, 2007; Nagle, 2008; Ronan, 2017; Simmons, 2009). Though a number of climate studies reference this idea (Kilburn, 2014; Shao, 2016; Shao & McCarthy, 2020), the only one that has specifically tested it is Barker and Bearce (2012), which found that believing Jesus would return to earth someday reduced support for government action to address climate change between 12 and 20%.…”

Section: Explaining Us Evangelical Climate Skepticism and Denialmentioning

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Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter forUSclimate policy?

Veldman

Wald

Mills

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WIREs Climate Change

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White evangelical Protestants are the most skeptical major religious group in the United States regarding climate change. While their position of political influence in the Republican coalition is widely recognised, the full range of effects of this position on evangelicals' climate opinions is not. To move research on evangelicals from the margins of climate change opinion research, we review and integrate the interdisciplinary literature on US evangelicals, climate change, and politics. In assessing this literature, we identify three areas in need of further research. First, there is a critical need for more research on the climate attitudes of evangelicals of color, who comprise a growing share of the evangelical tradition in the US. Second, highlighting the Christian Right's active engagement in the climate debate, we identify a need for more experimental work examining how cues from religious elites may shape evangelicals' opinions. Finally, we suggest that to better harness insights across disciplines, researchers must become more explicitly aware of how different disciplines conceptualize temporality. Attending to temporal scale suggests that a new approach is needed to test how dominion beliefs, which are widely thought to be an important theological driver of climate skepticism, operate. We also suggest that two factors that appear to play a weak or limited role in driving climate skepticism over the short term (anti‐science attitudes and evangelical religiosity) may in fact play a significant role in driving skepticism over the medium term. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts

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Section: Explaining Us Evangelical Climate Skepticism and Denialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter forUSclimate policy?

Veldman

Wald

Mills

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WIREs Climate Change

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“…Such Christians are often lambasted for ignoring environmental degradation in their fervor for a Second Coming: for example, a Pew Research Center poll (2015) indicates that only 28% of evangelicals believe that climate change is primarily driven by human consumption of fossil fuels. Opposition to climate science appears in evangelical literature, politics, and organizations (Ronan 2017). As such, many critics argue that evangelical Christianity is antithetical to environmental protection.…”

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A Hydra‐logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology

Geraci¹

2020

Zygon

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Scholarship has grown increasingly nuanced in its grappling with the intersections of religion, science, and technology but requires a new paradigm. Contemporary approaches to specific technologies reveal a wide variety of perspectives but remain too often committed to typological classification. To be vigilant of our obligation to understand and reveal, scholars in the study of religion, science, and technology can adopt a hydra-logical stance: we can recognize that there are cultural monsters possessing scientific, technological, and religious heads. These heads may work with a common agenda or they might not. They might disagree, pulling their shared body back and forth in a public commotion that lays waste to their surroundings. They might see past one another or move in tandempurposively or not. Evaluations of climate response and AI benefit from seeing how the various heads are inseparable: indeed, cutting one off simply promotes the growth of new heads. Methodological and analytical clarity, therefore, emerges in the transition from schemes of classification to the recognition of hydras.

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The Bible and Environmental Ethics

Deane‐Drummond¹

2022

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology

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This chapter seeks to address the implicit and explicit implications of biblical scholarship for environmental ethics. It begins by examining the cultural world in which the biblical scholars lived as generative of a different kind of ecologically relevant ethos. An appeal to the heart and imagination is crucially important in inspiring more explicit practical demands. The Wisdom literature highlights the ambiguities in paying attention to the terrifying and yet also edifying aspects of the natural world. The biblical theme of a common home has important repercussions theologically and ethically. More explicit ethical demands flow from the agrarian tenure of the Hebrew Bible in particular, though an argument can be made for pushing beyond this to more explicit sociopolitical demands. The use of biblical resources in building up the liturgical and sacramental life of ecclesial communities in ways that are of relevance to environmental concern touches on the community dimension of environmental ethics in a way that is sometimes avoided in secular discourse. The chapter argues that the practice of ecologically relevant virtues that are addressed in biblical texts at individual, familial, and political levels contribute to a liberating faith.

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American Evangelicalism, Apocalypticism, and the Anthropocene

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Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter forUSclimate policy?

Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter forUSclimate policy?

A Hydra‐logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology

The Bible and Environmental Ethics

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