Dr. Kira Ganga-Keiffer on Religious Vaccine Resistance
About this episode
Dr. Kira Ganga-Keiffer discusses the reasons behind religious objections to vaccination and their historical context.
Why do people cite religious objections to getting vaccinated? Where do these passionate beliefs, with no foundation in science, come from? Dr. Kira Ganga-Keiffer, a professor at Fairfield University, is a scholar of health and society, American religion, and history with a Ph.D. from Boston University). Her first book is Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America (Princeton University Press, May 2026).
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