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

Todd LeVasseur is visiting assistant professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston.

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 and science, Religion & science