# Dr. Kira Ganga-Keiffer on Religious Vaccine Resistance

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Podcast: [The Jim Motavalli Interview Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jim-motavalli-interview-podcast-7022794)
Published: 2026-06-25T14:35:42+00:00
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## Resource

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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