Environmentalism, a Secular Faith

Dunlap, Thomas R.

doi:10.3197/096327106778226284

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“…While this perspective includes a strong social justice element (contraction and convergence) essentially its vision of the good life is an ascetic one e living better by consuming less. As such it has resonances with much religious thinking, or rather, environmentalism fills the gap that for many, can no longer be filled by religion (Dunlap, 2006).…”

Section: Food Security Increase Supply Of Food On Global Marketsmentioning

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Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?

Garnett

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: Food Security Increase Supply Of Food On Global Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?

Garnett

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

270

192

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“…And how does implicit spirituality affect well-being through these functions? These questions are answered below, and then a construct that has been proposed as an implicit religion, environmentalism (Dunlap 2006;Taylor 2001), is used to illustrate these answers.…”

Section: Implications Of Implicit Religion Perspectives For the Meanimentioning

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Implicit Religion and the Meaning Making Model

Park¹

2011

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This article explores the potential contributions of a model of meaning making (Park 2010a) to the emerging study of implicit religion. A model of meaning making is first explicated; this model describes the ways in which meaning is central to human beings in both their everyday lives and in stressful circumstances and delineates global and situational levels of meaning. Previous applications of the meaning making model to religiousness/spirituality are discussed. The concept of implicit religion is introduced, and implications of its integration into a broader religious meaning-making model are considered. Suggestions for future research on implicit religion and meaning-making conclude the article. The meaning making modelThe meaning making model proposed by Park and colleagues (Park 2010a; Park and Folkman 1997) was developed to bring together an accumulating literature on multiple related but distinct topics, including meaning in life, spirituality, worldviews, and coping with difficult experiences such as trauma, bereavement, and physical illness. Collectively, this literature suggests that meaning is central to and pervasive in human experience and, through multiple pathways, affects psychological, physical and social well-being (Park 2010b). This section briefly reviews the meaning making model; a more detailed treatment is provided hy Park ( ,2010a. The meaning making model describes two levels of meaning, global and situational. Global meaning refers to individuals' general orienting systems (Pargament 1997). Situational meaning refers to the influence of global meaning in the context of particular situations. Meaning systems

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“…With this in mind, the centrality of environmental values in people's motivations for joining an eco-community is easy to comprehend. In a broader sense, ecological concerns are widespread in today's society, whether as a form of religion, as Dunlap (2006) claimed, or simply as moral values (Echavarren 2010).…”

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Becoming Part of an Eco-Community: Social and Environmental Activism or Livelihood Strategy?

2017

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Abstract:Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people's motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part of a larger study, based on ethnographic data collected between 2013 and 2015 in 27 eco-communities. The paper shows the extent to which people who joined an eco-community were driven by ideological reasons, adopting a livelihood strategy, or by a combination of both factors in the years following the crisis. We argue that the social and economic crisis has had an impact on the factors motivating people to join these communities, with an increase in the number of people driven by materialistic motives, relative to those who joined for ideological reasons.

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Environmentalism, a Secular Faith

Cited by 27 publications

References 3 publications

Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?

Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?

Implicit Religion and the Meaning Making Model

Becoming Part of an Eco-Community: Social and Environmental Activism or Livelihood Strategy?

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