3rd Edition
Grounding Religion A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology
Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes and is shaped by human–earth relations, surveying a series of key issues and questions, with particular attention to issues of environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and religious worldviews.
Case studies, discussion questions, and further readings enrich students’ experience. This third edition features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics.
An excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop today.
Whitney A. Bauman, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin J. O’Brien
Part I: Concepts
1. Religion: What Is It, Who Gets to Decide, and Why Does It Matter?
Whitney A. Bauman, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin J. O’Brien
2. Grounding Religion in the Environmental Humanities
Kate Rigby and Laurel Kearns
3. Ecology: Context, Interconnectedness, and Complexity
Whitney A. Bauman, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin J. O’Brien
Part II: Intersectional Locations
4. Taking Indigeneity Seriously
Dana Lloyd
5. Gender
Amanda M. Nichols
6. Sexuality and Queer Studies
Whitney A. Bauman
7. The Poor of the Earth
Miguel A. de la Torre
8. Race
Carol Wayne White
9. Disability
Lisa D. Powell
10. Privilege and Power
Laura M. Hartman and Kevin J. O'Brien
Part III: Issues
11. Climate Change
Laurel Kearns
12. Animals: Community Hope and Community Liberation
Sarah Withrow King
13. Vegetarianism, Religion, and Food
Catherine L. Newell
14. Energy
Terra Schwerin Rowe
15. Justice Otherwise
Nicole Hoskins
16. Extinction
Stefan Skrimshire
17. Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity
Maria Nita
18. Politics
Emma Tomalin
19. Place
Brian G. Campbell
20. Canceling the Apocalypse: Defiant Hope as a Call to Action in the Climate Era
Sarah McFarland Taylor
Index
Biography
Whitney A. Bauman is Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, USA.
Richard Bohannon is Associate Professor of Individualized and Interdisciplinary Studies at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Kevin J. O’Brien is Professor of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA.
