On the Significance of Religion in Climate Change (1) (Religion Matters)

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Synopsis
This book explores the role of religion in discussions about climate change and, particularly, the development of responses to climate change on global, state, institutional, and local levels. It considers examples of the ways that different religious traditions, including Indigenous, Muslim, Buddhist, and Christian communities, have responded to the different effects of climate change by using different methodological approaches, including political science and international relations (e.g. public opinion polls and constructivism); religious studies scholarship on climate change, including an overview of religion and ecology as a subdiscipline in religious studies; and environmental humanities approaches.This volume interrogates the diverse ways religion both acts and is acted upon by different actors, including institutions and nation states, in response to climate change. Within single traditions, different actors advocate for planetary care and concern, while their co-religionists may remain passive or deny climate change as a phenomenon.This book hopes to complicate and unravel the complexities of how different religions approach climate change and recommends that religions are taken seriously in the development of climate change mitigation strategies at different scales.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
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Book Size:
102 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040301098
Related ISBNs:
9781040301081, 9781032332598, 9781003318866, 9781032332581
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Lan T. Chu, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, and Youssef Chouhoud
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Religion and Spirituality, Earth Sciences
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