1st Edition

Religion and the Environment An Introduction

By Susan Power Bratton Copyright 2021
274 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How does religion relate to our global environment? Religion and the Environment provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this controversial question by covering the following important themes: the religion-environment interface pre- and post-industrial religious practices related to resource extraction and the rise of the Anthropocene an analysis of... Read more

1. Introduction: Religion, social action, and the environment

2. Connections: Sacred stories, sacred springs

3. Communities: Harvesting and respecting the wild

4. Sustenance: Food security, agricultural innovation, and environmental degradation

5. Ignitions: Sacred tools, ritual fires, and the value of "things"

6. Watersheds: Scale, place, and consilience

7. Sanctuaries: Preservation of species, ecosystems, and natural features

8. Megacities: Sacred space, urban planning, and built environments

9. Healing: The iconography of pollution and planetary wellness

10. Networks: Tackling global climate and sea change

11. Models: Conceptual approaches to a planetary future

12. Commonalities: Greening and the challenges of modernity

Biography

Susan Power Bratton is Professor and former chair of the Department of Environmental Science at Baylor University, USA.