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title: "Acknowledgments"
description: "This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. It was a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion. Research Team         Becka A. Alper, Senior Researcher   Alan Cooperman, Director, Religion ResearchGregory A. Smith, Associate Director, […]"
date: "2022-11-17"
authors:
  - name: "Becka A. Alper"
    job_title: "Senior Researcher"
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url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/11/17/climate-religion-acknowledgments/"
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  - "Catholicism"
  - "Christianity"
  - "Climate, Energy & Environment"
  - "Evangelicalism"
  - "Historically Black Protestantism"
  - "Mainline Protestantism"
  - "Partisanship & Issues"
  - "Political Issues"
  - "Protestantism"
  - "Religion & Race"
  - "Religion & Science"
  - "Religion & Science"
  - "Religion & Social Values"
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  - "Religiously Unaffiliated"
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  - name: "American Trends Panel Wave 106"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-106/"
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# Acknowledgments

This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

It was a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at [pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion](https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/religion/).

#### Research Team* *

Becka A. Alper, *Senior Researcher *
Alan Cooperman, *Director, Religion Research*
Gregory A. Smith, *Associate Director, Religion Research *
Besheer Mohamed, *Senior Researcher*
Michael Rotolo, *Research Associate*
Patricia Tevington, *Research Associate*
Justin Nortey, *Research Analyst* * *
Joshua Alvarado, *Research Assistant*

#### Methods Team* *

Courtney Kennedy, *Vice President, Methods and Innovation*
Andrew Mercer, *Senior Research Methodologist*
Scott Keeter, *Senior Survey Advisor*
Ashley Amaya, *Senior Survey Research Methodologist* * *
Dorene Asare-Marfo, *Panel Manager* * *
Dana Mildred Popky, *Associate Panel Manager*
Arnold Lau, *Research Methodologist*

#### Editorial and Graphic Design

Michael Lipka, *Editorial Manager *
Jeff Diamant, *Senior Writer/Editor*
David Kent, *Senior Copy Editor*
Rebecca Leppert, *Editorial Assistant *
Bill Webster, *Senior Information Graphics Designer*

#### Communications and Web Publishing

Stacy Rosenberg, *Associate Director, Digital*
Reem Nadeem, *Associate Digital Producer*
Anna Schiller, *Senior Communications Manager
*Kelsey Beveridge, *Communications Associate*
Achsah Callahan, *Communications Manager*

In addition, the Center would like to thank the following people for sharing their topical expertise (several of them are quoted in this report): Jose Aguto, executive director, Catholic Climate Covenant; Phil Aroneanu, chief strategy officer, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action; David Barr, visiting assistant professor of religion, Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia; Karyn Bigelow, co-executive director, Creation Justice Ministries; the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, founder and president emerita, Interfaith Power and Light; Cassandra Carmichael, executive director, National Religious Partnership for the Environment; the Rev. Richard Cizik, president, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good; Stephen Ellingson, professor of sociology, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York; Nana Firman, co-founder, Global Muslim Climate Network, and senior ambassador, GreenFaith; Anna M. Gade, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Tori Goebel, national organizer and spokesperson, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action; Walter Grazer, former manager, Environmental Justice Program at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the Rev. Mitch Hescox, president and chief executive officer, the Evangelical Environmental Network; Bob Inglis, executive director, republicEN; Russell Johnson, assistant director, undergraduate religious studies program, the University of Chicago; Sergei Kapral, protodeacon, Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and treasurer, Creation Justice Ministries; Jonathan Merritt, author of “Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet”; Dan Misleh, founder, Catholic Climate Covenant; Joelle Novey, director, Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA); Fran Pavley, former chair, California Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; Adam Rome, professor of environment and sustainability, the University at Buffalo; Rabbi Daniel Swartz, Temple Hesed in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and executive director, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life; Bron Taylor, professor of religion and nature, environmental and social ethics, and environmental movements and politics, the University of Florida; Robin Veldman, associate professor of religious studies, Texas A&M University; Katharine K. Wilkinson, author of “Between God & Green: How Evangelicals are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change”; and Jennifer Wiseman, director emeritus, the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program, and senior astrophysicist, the Goddard Space Flight Center.

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