Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern

Djupe, Paul A.; Hunt, Patrick Kieran

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01472.x

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“…Class differences likely explain why, although conservative Protestants are more likely to be politically conservative on issues of abortion and sexuality, they do not have more conservative views on economic issues such as redistribution (Davis & Robinson 1996b, Hart 1992, Johnson & Tamney 2001, Kiecolt 1988, Layman & Carmines 1997 and have variable opinions on social justice issues such as race relations (Davis & Robinson 1996b, Edgell & Tranby 2007, Emerson et al 1999, Kirkpatrick 1993, Read & Eagle 2011Wilcox 1990), peace and justice issues (Olson & Carroll 1992), and environmental issues (Biel & Nilsson 2005, Danielsen 2013, Djupe & Hunt 2009, Tarakeshwar et al 2001.…”

Section: Where the Consensus Ends And What The Consensus Might Be Obsmentioning

confidence: 96%

How Complex Religion Can Improve Our Understanding of American Politics

Wilde

Glassman

2016

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Sociologists have long acknowledged the importance of religion for American politics, especially for two groups of people: (a) (white) conservative Protestants, who are increasingly affiliated with the religious right, and (b) progressives, who are more and more disaffiliated from organized religion. However, a comprehensive statement of the ways in which religion matters for politics, the context in which it matters and does not matter, and how this has changed over time is lacking. Recent reviews acknowledge that at best, the relationship between religion and politics in the United States is "not straightforward" (Grzymala-Busse 2012, p. 427). We contend that this is primarily a result of the fact that neither the sociology of religion nor political sociology adequately considers the role that inequality (especially race and class but also gender) play in religious affiliation (and nonaffiliation). As a result, both fields have neglected to systematically examine the ways in which class and race may shape the relationship between religion and politics in the United States. We thus argue that both fields would benefit from engagement with theories of complex inequality that take seriously the ways in which inequalities of race, class, and gender interact (McCall 2001). In doing so, scholars also need to recognize that these structures of inequality are deeply intertwined with religious group membership-a theoretical argument that we call complex religion. 15.1

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Section: Where the Consensus Ends And What The Consensus Might Be Obsmentioning

confidence: 96%

How Complex Religion Can Improve Our Understanding of American Politics

Wilde

Glassman

2016

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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“…, ; Hand and Van Liere ; Schultz, Zelenzny, and Dalrymple ; Tarakeshwar et al. ; Woodrum and Hoban ), whereas others find a weak or no relationship between religious variables and environmental beliefs or behaviors (Boyd ; Djupe and Hunt ; Greeley ; Hayes and Marangudakis ; Kanagy and Nelsen ; Shaiko ; Sherkat and Ellison ; Wolkomir et al. ).…”

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Fracturing Over Creation Care? Shifting Environmental Beliefs Among Evangelicals, 1984–2010

Danielsen

2013

Scientific Study of Religion

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While evangelicals have been popularly portrayed as caring primarily about social issues including abortion and homosexuality, there have been more reports in recent years of evangelical leaders, congregations, and institutions shifting focus to environmental issues. Are evangelicals shifting attention to and becoming more progressive in their views on the environment? Moreover, are evangelicals fracturing over the issue of environmentalism, as some have suggested? Using content analysis of three evangelical periodicals (Christianity Today, Sojourners, and World) from 1984 to 2010, I find not only that attention to environmental issues has increased over time, but also that the discussion has grown increasingly polarized and politicized. This change represents a potentially important break with the Republican Party and the Christian Right, as moderate evangelicals have moved to the left on environmental issues. Even among highly religious, self-identified evangelical political elites, there is more diversity in views and political leanings than is commonly assumed. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of a lack of alignment between evangelical elites, traditional Christian Right leaders, and the Republican Party.

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“…Djupe and Hunt (2009), in their analysis of the disparity between the pro-environmental views of clergy in the Episcopal (ECUSA) and Lutheran (ELCA) churches and the more conservative views regarding the envirorunent held by their congregations, ask whether clergy should 'communicate with the goal of reshaping beliefs about the meaning of religious texts or.. .speak directly about the nature of environmental problems?' (Djupe and Hunt 2009: 682).…”

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Church and climate change

DeLashmutt

2011

JSRNC

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This article examines the extent to which the Church of England's institutional environmental policies, practices, and theologies are being translated into the context of the parish church. This study uses a series of focus group interviews to gather data from six parishes around the Diocese of Truro to assess the attitudes towards, and actions regarding, environment and climate change amongst regular Church of England churchgoers. The study suggests that despite a wealth of institutional resources that have been developed to foster theologically informed environmental knowledge, very little awareness of the institutional Church's ethos is found in the local church context. Background

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Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern

Cited by 89 publications

References 44 publications

How Complex Religion Can Improve Our Understanding of American Politics

How Complex Religion Can Improve Our Understanding of American Politics

Fracturing Over Creation Care? Shifting Environmental Beliefs Among Evangelicals, 1984–2010

Church and climate change

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