Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds

by David L. Haberman (Editor), Cecilie Rubow (Contributor), Guillermo Salas Carreño (Contributor)

How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change?
Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld , edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges.
People of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change.
Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds offers a transnational view of how religion reconciles the concepts of the global and the local and influences the challenges of climate change.

Genres: Climate Change

330 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2021

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[Mayke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Met plezier gelezen, een focus op de relatie tussen natuur en lokale kennis van niet-Westerse gemeenschappen