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Inherited land : the changing grounds of religion and ecology / edited by Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, Kevin J. O'Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Religious aspects--Congresses.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Religion and ecology has arrived. What was once a niche interest for a few academics concerned with environmental issues and a few environmentalists interested in religion has become an established academic field with classic texts, graduate programs, regular meetings at academic conferences, and growing interest from other academics and the mass media. Theologians, ethicists, sociologists, and other scholars are engaged in a broad dialogue about the ways religious studies can help understand and address environmental problems, including the sorts of methodological, terminological, and substantive debates that characterize any academic discourse.This book recognizes the field that has taken shape, reflects on the ways it is changing, and anticipates its development in the future. The essays offer analyses and reflections from emerging scholars of religion and ecology, each addressing her or his own specialty in light of two questions: (1) What have we inherited from the work that has come before us? and (2) What inquiries, concerns, and conversation partners should be central to the next generation of scholarship?The aim of this volume is not to lay out a single and clear path forward for the field. Rather, the authors critically reflect on the field from within, outline some of the major issues we face in the academy, and offer perspectives that will nurture continued dialogue.
- Contents:
- The tensions and promises of religion and ecology's past, present, and future / Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, Kevin J. O'Brien
- Nature religion and the problem of authenticity / Evan Berry
- The importance and limits of taking science seriously : data and uncertainty in religion and ecology / Srah E. Fredericks, Kevin J. O'Brien
- What traditions are represented in religion and ecology? : a perspective from an American scholar of Islam / Eleanor Finnegan
- Opening the language of religion and ecology : viable spaces for transformative politics / Whitney A. Bauman
- Feminist, gender, and sexuality studies in religion and ecology : where we have been, where we are now, and where we might go / Tovis Page
- Practically natural : religious resources for environmental pragmatism / Lucas F. Johnson, Samuel Snyder
- How does it feel to be an environmental problem? : studying religion and ecology in the African diaspora / Elonda Clay
- Saving the world (and the people in it, too) : religion in eco-justice and environmental justice / Richard R. Bohannon II, Kevin J. O'Brien
- Religion and ecology on the ground : "practice" and "place" as key concepts / Brian G. Campbell
- Religion and the urban environment / Richard R. Bohannon II
- The buzzing, breathing, clicking, clacking, biting, stinging, chirping, howling landscape of religious studies / Gavin Van Horn
- Conclusion: The territory ahead / Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, Kevin J. O'Brien.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63087-624-0
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