Religion in Environmental and Climate Change
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Religion in Environmental and Climate Change

Suffering, Values, Lifestyles

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Religion in Environmental and Climate Change

Suffering, Values, Lifestyles

About this book

Climate change and other global environmental changes deserve attention by the the humanities - they are caused mainly by human attitudes and activities and feed back to human societies. Focussing on religion allows for analysis of various human modes of perception, action and thought in relation to global environmental change. On the one hand, religious organizations are aiming to become "greener"; on the other hand, some religious ideas and practices display fatalism towards impacts of climate change. What might be the fate of different religions in an ever-warming world? This book gathers recent research on functions of religion in climate change from theological, ethical, philosophical, anthropological, historical and earth system analytical perspectives. Charting the spread from regional case studies to global-scale syntheses, the authors demonstrate that world religions and indigenous belief systems are already responding in highly dynamic ways to ongoing and projected climate changes - in theory and practice, for better or for worse. The book establishes the research field "religion in climate change" and identifies avenues for future research across disciplines.

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Yes, you can access Religion in Environmental and Climate Change by Dieter Gerten, Sigurd Bergmann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Ethics & Moral Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781472505569
eBook ISBN
9781441166289
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Part 1 Setting the Stage
  9. Chapter 1 Facing the Human Faces of Climate Change
  10. Chapter 2 Global Change and the Need for New Cosmologies
  11. Chapter 3 Religion in the Public Sphere: The Social Function of Religion in the Context of Climate and Development Policy
  12. Chapter 4 Contemplating Climategate: Religion and the Future of Climate Research
  13. Part 2 Sketching Sustainable Futures: Recent Dynamics in World Religions
  14. Chapter 5 Climate Justice from a Christian Point of View: Challenges for a New Definition of Wealth
  15. Chapter 6 Climate Justice and the Intrinsic Value of Creation: The Christian Understanding of Creation and its Holistic Implications
  16. Chapter 7 Evangelicals and Climate Change
  17. Chapter 8 Religious Climate Activism in the United States
  18. Chapter 9 The Future of Faith: Climate Change and the Fate of Religions
  19. Part 3 Regional and Indigenous Belief Systems in Climate and Environmental Change: Case Studies
  20. Chapter 10 Climate and Cosmology: Exploring Sakha Belief and the Local Effects of Unprecedented Change in North-Eastern Siberia, Russia
  21. Chapter 11 Religious Perspectives on Climate Change Among Indigenous Communities: Questions and Challenges for Ethnological Research
  22. Chapter 12 Vulnerable Coastal Regions: Indigenous People under Climate Change in Indonesia
  23. Chapter 13 Jaichylyk: Harmonizing the Will of Nature and Human Needs
  24. Chapter 14 Environment, Climate and Religion in Ancient European History
  25. Index