Sophie Bjork-James
Biographic Data
| ID | 5177627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Bjork-James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjork-James |
| SIGNATURE | BJORK-JAMES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reproductive Futurism in Evangelical and Secular Environmental Politics
This article explores the relationship between ideas about kinship and climate politics through the concept of reproductive futurism. Ideas about reproduction and future children define multiple sites of North American engagements with the climate crisis, where the human child comes to represent ‘a safe passage into the future’ (Sheldon 2016). Even within efforts to address climate change, this framework limits ethical action to solely the human,…
Ethnographies of Religious Responses to Climate Change
While science has guided our understanding of the problem of climate change, and to date policy work has led our responses, many look to religions—both formal and informal—for guidance to confront and navigate the multiple dimensions of the crisis. From heat waves to floods, rising sea levels, climate refugees, and mass extinctions, the threat of climate collapse is increasingly felt and feared. We need new cognitive and emotional capacities to u…
Whither Whiteness and Religion
Within the broad interdisciplinary domain of religious studies, explicit attention to whiteness remains limited. Not only does this situation reinforce an analytic division between race and religion, it also works to obscure the racial dimensions of dominant Western forms of religion, particularly Protestant Christianity in the United States, as well as the religious dimensions of white supremacy. Tracing the contours of a body of scholarship on …
This is Our Message
How can a patriarchal religion survive a feminist and sexual revolution? As two recent books on women in conservative Christianity in the United States demonstrate, it turns out that it must rely on women’s voices to defend the patriarchy. In a seemingly ironic twist, defending the patriarchy can also radically reshape religious gender norms and create an expanded platform for women to achieve influence, if not overt power. These two books show u…
Christian Nationalism and LGBTQ Structural Violence in the United States
This paper uses anti-LGBTQ bias within evangelical Christianity as a case study to explore how nationalist movements justify prejudicial positions through framing privileged groups as victims. Since Anita Bryant’s late 1970s crusade against what was dubbed the “homosexual agenda,” white evangelicals have led a national movement opposing LGBTQ rights in the United States. Through a commitment to ensuring sexual minorities are excluded from civil r…
Whither Whiteness and Religion
Within the broad interdisciplinary domain of religious studies, explicit attention to whiteness remains limited. Not only does this situation reinforce an analytic division between race and religion, it also works to obscure the racial dimensions of dominant Western forms of religion, particularly Protestant Christianity in the United States, as well as the religious dimensions of white supremacy. Tracing the contours of a body of scholarship on …
This is Our Message
How can a patriarchal religion survive a feminist and sexual revolution? As two recent books on women in conservative Christianity in the United States demonstrate, it turns out that it must rely on women’s voices to defend the patriarchy. In a seemingly ironic twist, defending the patriarchy can also radically reshape religious gender norms and create an expanded platform for women to achieve influence, if not overt power. These two books show u…
Christian Nationalism and LGBTQ Structural Violence in the United States
This paper uses anti-LGBTQ bias within evangelical Christianity as a case study to explore how nationalist movements justify prejudicial positions through framing privileged groups as victims. Since Anita Bryant’s late 1970s crusade against what was dubbed the “homosexual agenda,” white evangelicals have led a national movement opposing LGBTQ rights in the United States. Through a commitment to ensuring sexual minorities are excluded from civil r…
Whither Whiteness and Religion
Within the broad interdisciplinary domain of religious studies, explicit attention to whiteness remains limited. Not only does this situation reinforce an analytic division between race and religion, it also works to obscure the racial dimensions of dominant Western forms of religion, particularly Protestant Christianity in the United States, as well as the religious dimensions of white supremacy. Tracing the contours of a body of scholarship on …
This is Our Message
How can a patriarchal religion survive a feminist and sexual revolution? As two recent books on women in conservative Christianity in the United States demonstrate, it turns out that it must rely on women’s voices to defend the patriarchy. In a seemingly ironic twist, defending the patriarchy can also radically reshape religious gender norms and create an expanded platform for women to achieve influence, if not overt power. These two books show u…
Reproductive Futurism in Evangelical and Secular Environmental Politics
This article explores the relationship between ideas about kinship and climate politics through the concept of reproductive futurism. Ideas about reproduction and future children define multiple sites of North American engagements with the climate crisis, where the human child comes to represent ‘a safe passage into the future’ (Sheldon 2016). Even within efforts to address climate change, this framework limits ethical action to solely the human,…
Ethnographies of Religious Responses to Climate Change
While science has guided our understanding of the problem of climate change, and to date policy work has led our responses, many look to religions—both formal and informal—for guidance to confront and navigate the multiple dimensions of the crisis. From heat waves to floods, rising sea levels, climate refugees, and mass extinctions, the threat of climate collapse is increasingly felt and feared. We need new cognitive and emotional capacities to u…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)