Religious agrarianism and the return of place : from values to practice in sustainable agriculture / Todd LeVasseur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeVasseur, Todd, author.

Series:

SUNY series on religion and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Agriculture--Religious aspects.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

xvi, 253 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Writing at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd LeVasseur presents the case for the emergence of a nascent ?religious agrarianism? within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share an environmental concern about the modern industrial food economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. LeVasseur explores this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory, and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group.

Contents:

Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics?

Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism

Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism

The Local ([Farm] Land)

Concepts of Health

Justice for All : From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community

Conclusion : A Harvest of Ideas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-249) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: LeVasseur, Todd, author. Religious agrarianism and the return of place

ISBN:

9781438467733

1438467737

OCLC:

987689150