The Gospel of Climate Skepticism (re-release)

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to big government, and theology. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, scholar Robin Globus Veldman reveals the extent to which climate skepticism and anti-environmentalism have in fact become embedded in the social world of many conservative evangelicals. Rejecting the common assumption that evangelicals' skepticism is simply a side effect of political or theological conservatism, the book further shows that between 2006 and 2015, leaders and pundits associated with the Christian Right widely promoted skepticism as the biblical position on climate change. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad's talk at UCSB's Capp's Center: https://twitter.com/GregJoh81863873/status/1518663300409483264/photo/1 To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.3	Hello and welcome to straight white American Jesus. My name is Dan Miller. I'm associate professor
1:23.9	of religion and social thought in the Department of Liberal Studies at Landmark College. I am joined
1:29.3	today by Dr. Robin Veldman. She's assistant professor of religious studies at Texas A&M. She
1:35.9	describes herself as an interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar with research that examines
1:41.3	how religious beliefs and culture identity shape attitudes toward and conceptions of the natural
1:47.3	world. Professor Veldman, I want to welcome you and thank you for joining us on straight white
1:52.2	American Jesus. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah. Now you have just published a book. It
1:57.5	just is coming out this month, University of California Press, the gospel of climate skepticism
2:03.3	why evangelical Christians oppose action on climate change. And so I want to just start with that.
2:08.5	We talk some on this this podcast about evangelicals and views on education and intellectualism
2:16.1	and the history of their views on science and scientific authority and we'll talk more about that
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