1st Edition
Religious Environmental Activism Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship
1 Tensions in Religious Environmentalism
Jens Koehrsen, Julia Blanc and Fabian Huber
Part 1: Intradenominational Tensions
2 From Global Goal to Local Practice: Potential Lines of Tension in Religious Environmentalism in Catholic Religious Orders
Jiska Gojowczyk
3 Cosmological Tensions: Biodynamic Agriculture’s Anthropocentrism and its Contestation
Stéphanie Majerus
4 The Slow Greening of Established Churches in Switzerland: Tensions between Local Parishes and Church Head Organizations
Christophe Monnot
Part 2: Interdenominational Tensions
5 Halal Wastewater Recycling: Environmental Solution or Religious Complication?
Sofiah Jamil
6 From "Why Should?" to "Why Do?" Tensions in the Christian Context while Acting for the Environment
Julia Blanc
7 The Dissenting Voices: Perception of Climate Change and Church’s Responsibility in Nigeria
George C. Nche
Part 3: Interreligious Tensions
8 Environmentalism in the Religious Field: The Role of the Establishment for Competition in Switzerland
Fabian Huber
9 "What does religion have to do with nature conservation?" Investigating the Tensions in an Interreligious Nature Conservation Project in Germany
Carrie B. Dohe
10 Finding Ubuntu in the Bible: How the Zion Christian Church in South Africa Relates to Concepts of Ecology in African Traditional Religions
Juliane Stork and Charel du Toit
Part 4: Religious-Societal Tensions
11 Kosher Electricity and Sustainability: Building Block or Stumbling Stone?
Lior Herman
12 The Negotiation of Self-Identity in Swiss Biodynamic Wine-Crafting: Facets of a Sentient and Practitioner-Based Sustainable Agronomy
Alexandre Grandjean
13 The Green, the Secular, and the Religious: The Legitimacy of Religious Environmentalism in Global Climate Politics
Katharina Glaab
14 Climate and Covenant: A Case Study of the Functions, Goals and Tensions of Faith at the 23rd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
David Krantz
15 Environmental Action Within Local Faith Communities: Navigating Between High Expectations and Practical Action
Derk Harmannij
Biography
Fabian Huber studied sociology, religious studies and political science. He conducts research using quantitative and qualitative methods on the topics of religion and sustainability as well as religion and the media. A recent publication, together with Jens Köhrsen (2021): A field perspective on sustainability transitions: The case of religious organizations. In: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 40, 408-420.
Jens Koehrsen is an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo and a Senior Researcher at the University of Basel.
Julia Blanc is a Theologian working at the University of Passau, Germany and wrote her dissertation on "Ökokatholizismus" (2017).
