Understanding Climate Change Through Religious Lifeworlds

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.

Sommario

Preface

Introduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain World

Recombinant Responses

1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone

2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology and Local Measures at Quyllurit'i, a High Andean Shrine

3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, Fiji

Local Knowledge

4. "Nature Can Heal Itself"

5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica

6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the Sacred

Loss, Anxiety, and Doubt

7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier

8. Loss and Recovery in the Himalayas

Religious Transformations

9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers

10. Recasting the Sacred

Conclusion: Religion and Climate Change

List of Contributors

Index

Info autore

edited by David L. Haberman, with contributions by Cecilie Rubow, Guillermo Salas Carreño, C. Mathews Samson, Amanda Bertana, Georgina Drew, Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Karine Gagné, Mabel Gergan, Willis Jenkins, Karsten Paerregaard

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David L. Haberman
• Con la collaborazione di: David L Haberman (Editore), David L. Haberman (Editore)
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780253056047
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05604-7
• Pagine: 330
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia