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The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement Hardcover – April 15, 2022

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In The Nature of the Religious Right, Neall W. Pogue examines how white conservative evangelical Christians became a political force known for hostility toward environmental legislation. Before the 1990s, this group used ideas of nature to help construct the religious right movement while developing theologically based, eco-friendly philosophies that can be described as Christian environmental stewardship. On the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, members of this conservative evangelical community tried to turn their eco-friendly philosophies into action. Yet this attempt was overwhelmed by a growing number in the leadership who made anti-environmentalism the accepted position through public ridicule, conspiracy theories, and cherry-picked science.

Through analysis of rhetoric, political expediency, and theological imperatives, The Nature of the Religious Right explains how ideas of nature played a role in constructing the conservative evangelical political movement, why Christian environmental stewardship was supported by members of the community for so long, and why they turned against it so decidedly beginning in the 1990s.

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  1. Print length
    264 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Cornell University Press
  4. Publication date
    April 15, 2022
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 1 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1501762001
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1501762000
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Pogue carefully delineates the backtracking of many conservative evangelicals on environmentalism, even as he presents the valiant but unsuccessful efforts of the Evangelical Environmental Network's Ron Sider and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, among other evangelicals, to forestall this abandonment of environmental stewardship.

― The Chrisitan Century

This book offers an important, persuasive corrective to the history of religious conservatism. Pogue argues that Evangelicals' dogmatic opposition of environmentalism is historically contingent rather than an inevitable result of theology and political ideology. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, Pogue documents a doctrine of "Christian environmental stewardship" that was clearly articulated among prominent Evangelicals beginning in the late 1960s and shows how this environmentalism was purged from the religious Right only in the early 1990s. Though the book's accounting of evangelical theology, particularly the analysis of "the natural" and a land-based nationalism, will not particularly surprise scholars, Pogue successfully shows how these ideas might have been compatible with early conceptions of stewardship long before being deployed to oppose actions protecting the environment. The book also offers lessons for the environmental movement, noting that the first Earth Day activists' critique of Christianity helped lay the groundwork for Evangelicals' eventual rejection of environmentalism. Required reading for historians and analysts of the conservative movement, the religious Right, and/or the environmental movement.

― Choice

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Pogue explores conservative evangelicals' shift toward anti-environmentalism over the past half-century, superbly demonstrating the complexity of this too-often-stereotyped movement. Written in highly accessible prose, The Nature of the Religious Right vastly improves our understanding of the movement's environmental legacy.

-- Robin Veldman, Texas A&M University, author of The Gospel of Climate Skepticism

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press (April 15, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501762001
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501762000
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Look a the Climate Crisis
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Pogue provides a very nuanced look at the recondite dimensions of the climate crisis - one of the most salient political issues responsible for our nation's current polarization. Excellent work talking discussing what typically does not get discussed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fair and honest
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The author gives a fair accounting of what is promised in the title
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