Faiths in Green : Religion, Environmental Change, and Environmental Concern in the United States.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szrot, Lukas.

Series:

Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--United States--History.

Environmentalism.

Environmentalism--United States--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Faiths in Green

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.

Summary:

Faiths in Green examines how the relationship between religious upbringing, affiliation, disaffiliation, and environmental concern in the United States has changed over time. Public opinion data combined with historical insights show how and why religious groups have constructively responded to environmental change across generations.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Sacred Places in a Risk Society

When Salespeople Become Giant Insects

Risk and Wickedness: A Moral Issue

Isn't Religion Going Away?

Religion and Environmental Concern: A Critical Overview

Religion, Environmental Concern, and Habitus

Religion, Environmental Concern, and Reflexivity

Chapter Summary: Introduction and Plan of the Book

Chapter 2: Religion and Change over Time

(Not) Practicing What We Preach

Comparing Religious Motivations

Religion as Habitus

Reflexivity as "Living Tradition"

Measuring Social Trends

Religious Groups and Religious Motives

Generations versus Birth Cohorts

Environmental Concern and Other Important Variables

A Crash Course in Model-Building

Chapter Summary: The Stage Is Set

Chapter 3: Religious Upbringing, Disaffiliation, Environmental Concern

Those Who Stay and the Ex's: Religious Motives, Revisited

"Stay" and "Ex," Patterns and Motives

Environmental Concern and the Unaffiliated

Chapter Summary: Explaining Religious Upbringing, Disaffiliation, and Environmental Concern

Chapter 4: Religion and Environmental Concern, Intergenerationally

Religion and Environmental Concern: A Bigger Picture

Competing Explanations

Managing Expectations

Limitations of Big Pictures

Year, Age, and Theology: Comparing Approaches

Chapter Summary: Toward a Third Explanation

Chapter 5: Bringing Religion in: Gender, Class, Race, and Politics

Gender, Religion, and Environmental Concern

Religion, Environment, and Feminism

Income, Religion, and Environmental Concern

Religion and Environment: Who Must, Who Can, and Who Wants To

Politics, Race, Religion, and Environmental Concern

Model-Building in Red and Blue.

Race, Religion, and Environmental Injustice in the U.S.

Religion and Environmental Concern: Black and White, Red and Blue

Divided on Religion and Environmental Concern: Where, When, and Why

Chapter Summary: Plot Twists and Resolution

Conclusion: Prospects and Possibilities

Making Sense of the Religion-Environment Connection

Religion in Risk Society: Three Possible Visions

Coda: Reflexivity, Religion, and Science

References

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-7936-3013-5

OCLC:

1240828087