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DOI	10.1002/wcc.693
	Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter for US climate policy?
	Veldman R.G.; Wald D.M.; Mills S.B.; Peterson D.A.M.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1757-7780
卷号	12 期号:2
英文摘要	White evangelical Protestants are the most skeptical major religious group in the United States regarding climate change. While their position of political influence in the Republican coalition is widely recognised, the full range of effects of this position on evangelicals' climate opinions is not. To move research on evangelicals from the margins of climate change opinion research, we review and integrate the interdisciplinary literature on US evangelicals, climate change, and politics. In assessing this literature, we identify three areas in need of further research. First, there is a critical need for more research on the climate attitudes of evangelicals of color, who comprise a growing share of the evangelical tradition in the US. Second, highlighting the Christian Right's active engagement in the climate debate, we identify a need for more experimental work examining how cues from religious elites may shape evangelicals' opinions. Finally, we suggest that to better harness insights across disciplines, researchers must become more explicitly aware of how different disciplines conceptualize temporality. Attending to temporal scale suggests that a new approach is needed to test how dominion beliefs, which are widely thought to be an important theological driver of climate skepticism, operate. We also suggest that two factors that appear to play a weak or limited role in driving climate skepticism over the short term (anti-science attitudes and evangelical religiosity) may in fact play a significant role in driving skepticism over the medium term. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
关键词	Christian right climate change skepticism evangelical protestant Lynn White politics
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate debates; Climate policy; Disciplinary perspective; Medium term; New approaches; Political influences; Religious groups; Temporal scale; Climate change; Christianity; climate change; environmental policy; environmental politics; perception; United States
来源期刊	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249650
作者单位	Religious Studies Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States; Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States; Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; Department of Political Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Veldman R.G.,Wald D.M.,Mills S.B.,et al. Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter for US climate policy?[J],2021,12(2).
APA	Veldman R.G.,Wald D.M.,Mills S.B.,&Peterson D.A.M..(2021).Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter for US climate policy?.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,12(2).
MLA	Veldman R.G.,et al."Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter for US climate policy?".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 12.2(2021).