Most Americans probably think of conservative evangelicals as climate change deniers who believe global warming is a hoax. If this is you, you would not be entirely wrong. But our guest today, Neill Pogue, author of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement, suggests that this story is much more complicated. We discuss how evangelicals moved from environmental stewards in the 1970s to opponents of global warming by the end of the 1990s. Pogue also talks about the current state of evangelical concerns about the environment.
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Episode 124: Christian Capitalism in Early America
Episode 123: Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up at Midcentury
Episode 122: The Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
Episode 121: Reagan's Evangelical Vision for America
Episode 120: Popular Historians in Post-War America
Episode 119: How the Social Gospel Undermined Social Democracy
Episode 117: The Idea of Fraternity in America
Episode 116: Historical Thinking for a Democracy
Episode 115: Evangelicalism: Its Metaphors and Stories
Episode 114: How Slavery Helped Grow the American Catholic Church
Episode 113: The "Jesus Revolution"
Episode 112: The Search for God in a New York Publishing House
Episode 111: The Evangelical Battle Over the End Times
Episode 110: "How Black Ball Saved the Soul of the NBA"
Episode 109: The Voice and Faith of Sojourner Truth
Episode 108: The Life and Legacy of C. Vann Woodward
Episode 107: The Politics of Smallpox in Revolutionary America
Episode 106: Bruce Springsteen's "Long Walk Home"
Episode 105: "Heathenism" in America
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