Historian Darren Dochuk shares how the AMERICAN OIL INDUSTRY HAS
PROFOUNDLY SHAPED EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY, business, and global
politics. Join us as historian Darren Dochuk narrates the recent past
through the stories of American Christianity and the oil industry.
From the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War,
citizens saw the resource as the nation's special blessing and its
peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. To
the present day, the oil industry's leaders and workers together have
fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and
politics—boosting America's ascent as a preeminent global power,
shaping modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the
Republican Right, and setting the terms of today's political and
environmental debates. Dr. Dochuk's sweeping history, based on a
decade of research in dozens of archives, transforms how we understand
the relationship of Christianity and oil to American history.
DARREN DOCHUK is Associate Professor of History at Notre Dame
University. His first book, _From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk
Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical
Conservatism _(Norton, 2010) won the AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S
JOHN H. Dunning Prize and the Organization of AMERICAN HISTORIANS'
ELLIS W. Hawley Prize. Dr. Dochuk's second book is _Anointed with Oil:
How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America _(Basic, 2019).
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