Climate Politics and the Power of Religion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253059062 ISBN 13: 9780253059062

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2022

Synopsis

How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?

Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, and global politics.

From small island nations confronting sea-level rise and intensifying tropical storms to high-elevation communities in the Andes and Himalayas wrestling with accelerating glacial melt, there is tremendous variation in the ways that societies draw on religion to understand and contend with climate change.

Climate Politics and the Power of Religion offers 10 timely case studies that demonstrate how different communities render climate change within their own moral vocabularies and how such moral claims find purchase in activism and public debates about climate policy. Whether it be Hindutva policymakers in India, curanderos in Peru, or working-class people's concerns about the transgressions of petroleum extraction in Trinidad―religion affects how they all are making sense of and responding to this escalating global catastrophe.

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About the Author

Evan Berry is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is author of Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253059062
• ISBN 13: 9780253059062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Berry Evan