Religious environmental activism : : emerging conflicts and tensions in Earth stewardship / / edited by Jens Koehrsen, Julia Blanc, and Fabian Huber.

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment.
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • 1 Tensions in Religious Environmentalism
  • Part I Intradenominational Tensions
  • 2 From Global Goal to Local Practice: Potential Lines of Tension in Religious Environmentalism in Catholic Religious Orders
  • 3 Cosmological Tensions: Biodynamic Agriculture's Anthropocentrism and Its Contestation
  • 4 The Slow Greening of Established Churches in Switzerland: Tensions Between Local Parishes and Church Head Organizations
  • Part II Interdenominational Tensions
  • 5 Halal Wastewater Recycling: Environmental Solution or Religious Complication?
  • 6 From "Why Should?" to "Why Do?" Tensions in the Christian Context While Acting for the Environment
  • 7 The Dissenting Voices: Perception of Climate Change and the Church's Responsibility in Nigeria
  • Part III Interreligious Tensions
  • 8 Environmentalism in the Religious Field: The Role of the Establishment for Competition in Switzerland
  • 9 "What does religion have to do with nature conservation?" Investigating the Tensions in an Interreligious Nature Conservation Project in Germany
  • 10 Finding Ubuntu in the Bible: How the Zion Christian Church in South Africa Relates to Concepts of Ecology in African Traditional Religions
  • Part IV Religious-Societal Tensions
  • 11 Kosher Electricity and Sustainability: Building Block or Stumbling Stone?
  • 12 The Negotiation of Self-Identity in Swiss Biodynamic Wine-Crafting: Facets of a Sentient and Practitioner-Based Sustainable Agronomy
  • 13 The Green, the Secular, and the Religious: The Legitimacy of Religious Environmentalism in Global Climate Politics
  • 14 Climate and Covenant: A Case Study of the Functions, Goals, and Tensions of Faith at the 23rd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  • 15 Environmental Action Within Local Faith Communities: Navigating Between High Expectations and Practical Action
  • Index.