Faith and Oil
How the Alaska Pipeline Shaped America’s Religious Right
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
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.
Endorsements (2)
“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.”
“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.”
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