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Religion, Sustainability, and Place: Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene

Religion, Sustainability, and Place: Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene

Silvern, Steven E.
Davis, Edward H.

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General Sociology

ISBN10: 9811576459
ISBN13: 9789811576454
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 391
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments. This interdisciplinary volume deepens our understanding of this relationship, revealing that the geographical imagination--our sense of place--is a key aspect of the sustainability ideas and practices of religious groups. The book begins with a broad examination of how place shapes faith-based ideas about sustainability, with examples drawn from indigenous Hawaiians and the sacred texts of Judaism and Islam. Empirical case studies from North America, Europe, Central Asia and Africa follow, illustrating how a local, bounded, and sacred sense of place informs religious-based efforts to protect people and natural resources from threatening economic and political forces. Other contributors demonstrate that a cosmopolitan geographical imagination, viewing place as extending from the local to the global, shapes the struggles of Christian, Jewish and interfaith groupsto promote just and sustainable food systems and battle the climate crisis.

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