Conference Covered Climate from All Angles

Hulme, Michael; Boykoff, Max; Gupta, Joyeeta; Heyd, Thomás; Jaeger, Jill; Jamieson, Dale; Lemos, Maria Carmen; O’Brien, Karen; Roberts, Timmons; Rockström, Johan; Vogel, Coleen

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“…However ecologically informed, they are largely shaped by the limits of mechanistic and economy-oriented worldviews. Instead, we need a deeper understanding of the cultural dimensions of anthropogenic environmental change (Hulme et al 2009) -to which the study of religion and ecology makes substantial contributions.…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

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Developments in religion and ecology

Bergmann¹

2016

Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology

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Given the still very open context of studies in religion and the environment this chapter focuses on selected novel developments. Religion is understood as offering substantial cultural skills, and besides its meaning making, ritualizing, mapping and tracing, I emphasize the skill of religion to "make-oneself-at-home." Climate change, technology, and space/place represent three specifically challenging discourses to which scholars have creatively contributed. The chapter further discusses the emergence of the so-called environmental humanities and underlines the creativity and diversity of methodological experiments in the study of religion and ecology. From nature, life and land to the environmentThe research field of "religion and ecology," even termed as "religion and the environment" or "religion, nature and culture," behaves, due to its short but dynamic history, like a child still finding its feet. It can take the hands of its parents, theology and religious studies, and find support among older siblings such as philosophy, history, anthropology, biology and others. Asymmetries, unbalances and tumblings are natural, as are the joys of moving, seeing with different eyes and harvesting first fruits. Nevertheless, spreading one's wings requires balance: between employing established theories and methods and forging new unproven ones in other lands. Given this open and fresh context, this chapter will not map the whole but focus on some selected creative developments in what emerges as a new and flourishing research landscape.As the notion of "nature" is essential for the self-understanding of the whole Western civilization, also religions have in their long history contributed to the development of the concept of nature. "Nature" in the three Abrahamic religions is interpreted as

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Section: Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Developments in religion and ecology

Bergmann¹

2016

Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology

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Conference Covered Climate from All Angles

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