Climate Change, Religion, and Our Bodily Future

This book investigates how human-induced global warming will influence the bodily practice, performance, and production of religion in various geographic locations in the years and decades to come.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface: Where to, Next, in our Bodies, with "Climate Warming?"
Introduction
Part I Theoretical Overview
Chapter 1: Our BioCultural Future--Whither the Environment?: Planetary Regimes and Bodily Immersion
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Antecedents and Meso-level Creativity
Chapter 3: Cultural Narratives and Science
Part II Applied Case Studies
Chapter 4: Liquid Black Death: A Hegemon Ancient and Seductive
Chapter 5: Bodies and Religious Dramaturgy in Places of Climate Chaos
Chapter 6: Regenerative Thrivability and Flourishing-Ladakhi Buddhism in the Age of Climate Change: Constructing Identities and Adaptive Responses
Chapter 7: Post-Materialist Posthuman Dramaturgies and Resilience
Conclusion
Afterword
Coda

About the author

By Todd LeVasseur

Summary

This book investigates how human-induced global warming will influence the bodily practice, performance, and production of religion in various geographic locations in the years and decades to come.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Levasseur, LeVasseur Todd
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498534550
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3455-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Studies in Body and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Health, illness & addiction: social aspects, Religion & science