Climate Politics and the Power of Religion

Evan Berry editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:17th May '22

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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.

In a field that has often been crowded by work focused on celebrating the environmentally friendly dimensions of world religions, Climate Politics and the Power of Religion makes a critical intervention by advancing new directions for scholarship and "reinscrib[ing] politics as a key category for scholarship on religion and the environment"....this is a work that rewards the cover-to-cover reader.

- Joseph D. Witt - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (H-NET Reviews Humanities & Social Scien

ISBN: 9780253059062

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

298 pages