Trump, climate change and white US Evangelicalism

Jenkins, Willis (2017) Trump, climate change and white US Evangelicalism. Religion and the public Sphere (13 Jun 2017). Website.

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President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord last week was made possible by the rise of a climate-denying faction within white US Evangelicalism. Over the past decade this growing faction has come to regard the very idea of climate change as a threat to their identity, presenting climate discourse as a cultural attack on the embattled Christian identity. Willis Jenkins argues that we should view this climate denial not as the result of a religious narrative, but as a way of avoiding accountability for polluting the atmosphere.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionpublicsphere/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BT Doctrinal Theology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2017 11:28
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 21:04
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81655

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