Gardeners'' Dirty Hands - Environmental Politics and Christian Ethics

In The Gardeners' Dirty Hands: Environmental Politics and Christian Ethics, Noah Toly engages Christian and classical Greek ideas of the tragic to illuminate the enduring challenges of environmental politics. He suggests that Christians have unique resources for responsible engagement with global environmental politics.

List of contents

• Preface and Acknowledgements


• Chapter 1: The Gardeners' Dirty Hands


• Chapter 2: The Symbolism of the Tragic


• Chapter 3: The Macondoization of the World


• Chapter 4: The Cruciform Imaginary


• Chapter 5: The Constant Rigor of the Anthropocene


• Bibliography

About the author

Noah Toly is Professor of Urban Studies and Politics & International Relations at Wheaton College where he directs the Center for Urban Engagement. He also serves as Non-Resident Senior Fellow for Global Cities at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and as a member of the faculty at the Free University of Berlin's Center for Global Politics.

Summary

In The Gardeners' Dirty Hands: Environmental Politics and Christian Ethics, Noah Toly engages Christian and classical Greek ideas of the tragic to illuminate the enduring challenges of environmental politics. He suggests that Christians have unique resources for responsible engagement with global environmental politics.

Additional text

In this remarkably clear-minded explanation of environmental governance challenges, Noah Toly interprets their tragic character within Christian moral thought in a way that opens a range of legitimate responses and orients agents toward hopeful responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Noah J. Toly, Noah J. (Associate Professor Toly, Toly Noah J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2019
• EAN: 9780190249427
• ISBN: 978-0-19-024942-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; RELIGION / General, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Religion & beliefs, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Sociology & anthropology, Religion and beliefs, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Sociology and anthropology