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Interpreting the Eleventh Commandment: A Look at Creation Care and Its Role in American Politics

Barth, Whittney Layne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209050053

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2008, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, College of Arts and Sciences - Religion.
Often when words like Evangelical and global climate change are found in the same sentence, they are accompanied with words like hoax or liberal. This thesis explores the involvement of Evangelical Christians in the ongoing public discourse about the negative consequences of human action towards the environment. A growing number of Evangelicals (a demographic that voted George W. Bush into office by a margin of four to one) are speaking out in favor of environmental protection. Human-induced global climate change is posited as an issue of immediate concern to this growing movement which has come to be known as Creation Care. Despite this trend, the Creation Care movement is not without critics from within the Evangelical community. This thesis argues that this contention is more political than it is theological and that both sides justify their claims by employing familiar frames that resonate with Evangelical voters.
Peter Williams, PhD (Advisor)
Jim Hanges, PhD (Committee Member)
John Forren, PhD (Committee Member)
79 p.
American Studies; Earth; Political Science; Religion; Religious Congregations; Religious History
Evangelical; Christian; Global Climate Change; Environment; American Religions; American Politics; Creation Care; Religious Right

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  • Barth, W. L. (2008). Interpreting the Eleventh Commandment: A Look at Creation Care and Its Role in American Politics [Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209050053

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Barth, Whittney. Interpreting the Eleventh Commandment: A Look at Creation Care and Its Role in American Politics. 2008. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209050053.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Barth, Whittney. "Interpreting the Eleventh Commandment: A Look at Creation Care and Its Role in American Politics." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209050053

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