Faith and Oil

“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.”


—Mark Noll, author of A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada





“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.”


—Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame; author of Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America