How has Christianity informed our understandings of race? And how have these understandings informed our politics? In this lecture, anthropologist of religion, Marla Frederick explores these questions and offers a compelling argument as to why Christianity in the 21st century indeed needs a more critical lens through which to interpret race.

Researchers who are interested in understanding how religion affects Americans’ attitudes toward climate change have typically conceptualized religious influence as emerging from within organized religious traditions. On this view, if religion affects Catholics’ climate attitudes at all, it will be through a specifically Catholic source such as Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ or though the influence of