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This book explores how religious traditions can play a decisive role in addressing the complexity of the current environmental crisis by taking the ecological recommendations promoted by religious and political actors to the ground of individual and community experiences. It observes how religious institutions have elaborated their eco-religious message by reinterpreting their texts and doctrines and how their communities have reacted. The book also focuses on new usages of spaces and resources through the intermediation of technological devices, as well as accelerated processes of technological innovation within religious groups that once would have shown great resistance. This book is of importance to scholars of not just the humanities, but also to scientists looking to deepen their understanding of religion and sustainability.
Chapter "Religion´s Relationship with the Environment, Society and Technology Intersection: Insights from a Catholic Intentional Community in Rural Appalachia" is available open access under a via link.springer.com.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Why Study Religion, Nature, and Technology: A Premise (Vitullo and Saggioro).- Chapter 2. Jürgen Moltmann and the Question of a Christian Ecological Doctrine of Creation (Battista).- Chapter 3. Modern Man and the Environmental Crisis. Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Nature (Stella).- Chapter 4. A green ally in the path to liberation: reliance on nature in Pali Buddhist texts (Giustarini).- Chapter 5. Hinduism between ecological cosmology, online Pujas and interreligious engagement for sustainability (Fraioli).- Chapter 6. Environmental Equilibrium, Magic and Morality: Religious Fascination Through Animated Tales from Earthsea (Pietro).- Chapter 7. Navigating Barriers: Understanding the Challenges Faced by Eco-evangelical Activism in Brazil (Santos).- Chapter 8. Growing Roots: Examining the Emergence of Ground-up Religious Environmental Groups in Singapore (Yee and Sin).- Chapter 9. Digital Footprints and Vegan Food on A Green Path: Three Case Studies on Ecological Activism, Vegetarianism in Chinese Immigrant Buddhist Communities in Montreal (Han).- Chapter 10. Religion´s Relationship with the Environment, Society and Technology Intersection: Insights from a Catholic Intentional Community in Rural Appalachia (Malin).- Chapter 11. Mother Earth in Danger: Changing Conceptualisations of the Climate Crisis in Contemporary Esoteric Movements (Albrecht).
About the author
Alessandra Vitullo is research fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Sociology of Communication and Sociology ofMigration. She is the associate director of the
Network for New Media Religion and Digital Culture Studies
, and the
scientific coordinator of the Religions and Social Change Lab
at Sapienza University. She was researcher for several universities and research centers, such as Texas A&M University, KU Leuven, Uppsala University, Bicocca University of Milan, and the Bruno Kessler Foundation. Her latest book
The Religionautes: Studying Homo Religiosus in the Time Of the Web
, was published in Italian in 2021. Alessandra Vitullo is currently working on a 5 years research project titled:
Eco-religious: believe in sustenaiblity
.
Alessandro Saggioro is Full Professor of History of Religions at Sapienza, University of Rome. He was president of the University Council for the History of Religions, and is currently delegate of the Magnifica Rettrice in the RUniPace Network, and Coordinator of the Phd Course in History and Culture of Europe and Deputy Director of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Art Entertainment. Alessandro Saggioro is also director of the
Studi e Materiale di Storia delle Religioni
journal, and of the series
Chi siamo - History of religions
;
Quaderni di Simbologia del vestire,
and
Shamanic Sapienza series
which he co-directs with S. Botta. His areas of interest include the dynamics of pluralism, mythology, sacred spaces, methodology and historiography of the history of religions.
