Church, cosmovision, and the environment : religion and social conflict in contemporary Latin America / edited by Evan Berry and Robert Albro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Evan, 1977- editor.

Albro, Robert, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in religion and environment.

Routledge studies in religion and environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecotheology--Latin America.

Ecotheology.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human ecology.

Environmentalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Environmentalism.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xii, 254 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies.0This volume contributes to scholarship on the intersections of religion with environmental conflict in a number of ways. Firstly, it provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy in places such as, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. It also considers the diversity of an often plural religious engagement with advocacy, including Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal perspectives alongside the effects of indigenous cosmological ideas. Finally, this book explores the specific religious sources of seemingly unlikely new alliances and novel articulations of rights, social justice, and ethics for the environmental concerns of Latin America. 0The relationship between religion and environmental issues is an increasingly important topic in the conversations around ecology and climate change. This book is, therefore, a pertinent and topical work for any academic working in Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Latin American Studies.

Contents:

Introduction: religion and environmental conflict in Latin America / Robert Albro, Evan Berrypart

Church advocacy in Latin America: integrating environment in the struggle for justice and human rights / Guillermo Kerber

Transnational religious advocacy networks in Latin America and beyond / Evan Berry

The Lausanne Movement, Holistic Mission and the introduction of Creation Care in Latin America and Argentina / Hans Geir Aasmundsen

Marina Silva: a Brazilian case study in religion, politics, and human rights / Paul Preston

Bolivia's indigenous foreign policy: vivir bien and global climate change ethics / Robert Albro

Relatives of the living forest: the social relation to nature underlying ecological action in Amazonian Kichwa communities / Tod D. Swanson

Trickster ecology: climate change and conservation pluralism in Guatemala's Maya lowlands / Liza Grandia

The winds of Oaxaca: renewable energy, climate change mitigation, and the ethics of transition / Cymene Howe

Articulating indigenous ecologies: the Indigenous Pastoral in the Huasteca, Mexico / Kristina Tiedje

Religion and cosmovisions within environmental conflicts and the challenge of ontological openings / Eduardo Gudynas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138400467

1138400467

OCLC:

1031053019

Publisher Number:

99979173086

40028395282