Faith and Oil: How the Alaska Pipeline Shaped America’s Religious Right
Ebook
Overview
Faith and Oil tells the story of conservative Christianity’s relationship with America’s oil industry. It shows how the libertarian values of big oil companies--such as government deregulation of business practices and curbing laws that protect the environment--became embedded within the theologies of the Religious Right. These theologies of oil later found their being in the public consciousness through the rise of Sarah Palin and led to the election of Donald Trump.
“This well-researched book takes readers further down the path
outlined by Darren Dochuk’s recent and magisterial study,
Anointed with Oil. Marshall adds important information
especially on the tight links between Big Oil and the American
evangelical community. She also draws thoughtful edifying
conclusions, as herself an evangelical, from a story she tells very
well.”
—Mark Noll, author of A History of Christianity in the United
States and Canada
“Faith and Oil is a sweeping and engrossing account that
details how petroleum industrialists and interests have long
operated at the center of the modern religious right, particularly
in the oil-saturated (but woefully understudied) terrains of
Alaska. Moving from the local to the global, from
early-twentieth-century fundamentalist oilmen like Lyman Stewart to
early-twenty-first-century Pentecostal politicians like Sarah
Palin, K. L. Marshall ably casts fresh light on the nation’s past
and current populist politics.”
—Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame; author of Anointed
With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern
America
Product Details
- Title : Faith and Oil: How the Alaska Pipeline Shaped America’s Religious Right
- Author: Marshall, K. L.
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2020
- ISBN: 9781725256682
K. L. Marshall is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh
School of Divinity. Her research focuses on the relationship
between fundamentalist religion and nationalism.