Church, Cosmovision and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Church, Cosmovision and the Environment write by Evan Berry. This book was released on 2018-06-27. Church, Cosmovision and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies. This volume contributes to scholarship on the intersections of religion with environmental conflict in a number of ways. Firstly, it provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy in places such as, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. It also considers the diversity of an often plural religious engagement with advocacy, including Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal perspectives alongside the effects of indigenous cosmological ideas. Finally, this book explores the specific religious sources of seemingly unlikely new alliances and novel articulations of rights, social justice, and ethics for the environmental concerns of Latin America. The relationship between religion and environmental issues is an increasingly important topic in the conversations around ecology and climate change. This book is, therefore, a pertinent and topical work for any academic working in Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Latin American Studies.
Sacred Acts
Sacred Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Acts write by Mallory McDuff. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Sacred Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the efforts of churches all over North America to confront climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Original.
Religious Environmental Activism
Religious Environmental Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Environmental Activism write by Jens Köhrsen. This book was released on 2022-12-20. Religious Environmental Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups. Different faith traditions have developed "green" theologies, launched environmental protection projects and issued public statements on climate change. Against this background, academic scholarship has raised optimistic claims about the strong potentials of religions to address environmental challenges. Taking a critical stance with regard to these claims, the chapters in this volume show that religious environmentalism is an embattled terrain. Tensions are an inherent part of religious environmentalism. These do not necessarily manifest themselves in open clashes between different parties but in different actions, views, theologies, ambivalences, misunderstandings, and sometimes mistrust. Keeping below the surface, these tensions can create effective barriers for religious environmentalism. The chapters examine how tensions are manifested and dealt with through a range of empirical case studies in various world regions. Covering different religious and spiritual traditions, they reflect on intradenominational, interdenominational, interreligious, and religious-societal tensions. Thereby, this volume sheds new light on the problems that religions face when they seek to take an active role in today’s societal challenges. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Christian Faith and the Environment
Christian Faith and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Faith and the Environment write by Brennan R. Hill. This book was released on 2007-03-16. Christian Faith and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although the environmental crisis has been recognized as an international threat, Christian attempts to reconcile their religious traditions and the earth are just beginning. 'Christian Faith and the Environment' challenges churches to take a stand for environmental concerns. Hill explores how twentieth-century theologians such as Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have taught Christians to build bridges between Christianity and creation. Examining sacramental rites, church documents, and feminist theological insights on ecology, Hill outlines a Christian environmental spirituality and traces the ethical challenges posed by our new awareness of our environment.
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Politics and the Power of Religion write by Evan Berry. This book was released on 2022-05-17. Climate Politics and the Power of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change? Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, and global politics. From small island nations confronting sea-level rise and intensifying tropical storms to high-elevation communities in the Andes and Himalayas wrestling with accelerating glacial melt, there is tremendous variation in the ways that societies draw on religion to understand and contend with climate change. Climate Politics and the Power of Religion offers 10 timely case studies that demonstrate how different communities render climate change within their own moral vocabularies and how such moral claims find purchase in activism and public debates about climate policy. Whether it be Hindutva policymakers in India, curanderos in Peru, or working-class people's concerns about the transgressions of petroleum extraction in Trinidad—religion affects how they all are making sense of and responding to this escalating global catastrophe.
