Activists of Faith, Betwixt and Between: Faith-Based Ecological Resistance in the Environmental Movement

Recognizing the entangled nature of religion and public activism, this arti-cle proposes a new category for individuals operating at the intersections of activism and faith communities: activists of faith, an umbrella term for activists who work in secular activist spaces while also ascribing to particu-lar religious traditions. I propose three categories for understanding these individuals: religious outliers, organizers of faith, and evangelical activ-ists. Drawing from eight years of ethnographic fieldwork, I offer detailed examples of each type within Florida's environmental movement in order to provide a robust understanding of faith-based ecological resistance in a religiously conservative region of the United States. Such activists go unnoticed as they belong to secular environmental groups, often without overt connections to their religious traditions. While their personal activ-ism may set them at odds with conservative members of their religious communities, faith is a vital part of their work and quest for justice.