Climate, catastrophe, and faith : how changes in climate drive religious upheaval / Philip Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Religious aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently had real religious consequences, for instance by spawning new religious movements and revivals, or driving the persecution of religious minorities. Philip Jenkins shows how climate change has redrawn the world's religious maps, and how man-made climate change is likely to do so once again.

Contents:

Cover

Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Note on Dates

Acknowledgments

1. From Disaster to Belief

2. Forcing Climate

3. Ages of Gold

4. God's Anger and the Demons Within

5. After Darkness, Light

6. A Faded Sun and a Wider World

7. Who Can Stand Before His Cold?

8. Darkening Heavens and a New World

9. A Warming World

Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-750637-2

0-19-750638-0

0-19-750636-4

OCLC:

1244628792