The Nature of the Religious Right : : The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement / / Neall W. Pogue.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Pogue, Neall W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 b&w plates

In The Nature of the Religious Right, Neall Pogue examines how white conservative evangelical Christians became a political force known for hostility towards environmental legislation. Before the 1990s, this religious community 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 as a growing number in the leadership 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 the community for so long, and why they turned against it so decidedly beginning in the 1990's.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conservative Evangelicals Respond to the Founding of Earth Day -- Chapter 2 Humanity’s Proper Place between God and Nature -- Chapter 3 Nature in a Religious Right Perspective -- Chapter 4 The Moral Majority Finds Favor in the Republican Party -- Chapter 5 The Struggle between Christian Environmental Stewardship and Anti-Environmentalism in the Religious Right -- Chapter 6 The National Association of Evangelicals Turns against the Environment -- Chapter 7 “It Could Have Taken a Very Different Path” -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index