Broschiertes Buch

Religion, Sustainability, and Place

Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene

Herausgegeben: Silvern, Steven E.; Davis, Edward H.

Beschreibung

This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments. This interdisciplinary volume deepens our understanding of this relationship, revealing that the geographical imagination-our sense of place-is a key aspect of the sustainability ideas and practices of religious groups. The book begins with a broad examination of how place shapes faith-based ideas about sustainability, with examples drawn from indigenous Hawaiians and the sacred texts of Judaism and Islam. Empirical case studies from North America, Europe, Central Asia and Africa follow, illustrating how a local, bounded, and sacred sense of place informs religious-based efforts to protect people and natural resources from threatening economic and political forces. Other contributors demonstrate that a cosmopolitan geographical imagination, viewing place as extending from the local to the global, shapes the struggles of Christian, Jewish and interfaith groupsto promote just and sustainable food systems and battle the climate crisis.

Autor

Steven E. Silvern is Professor of Geography and Sustainability at Salem State University. His research has appeared in journals such as Political Geography, Cultural Geographies, Historical Geography, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. He is also editor of The Northeastern Geographer. Edward H. Davis is Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Emory & Henry College in Virginia, USA. He has published extensively on rural and agricultural change in the US and Central America. Funded by the USDA, his explorations for seed savers in the Southern US led to the collection of dozens of rare heirloom Brassica varieties for the national seed bank. He serves on the board of the Geography of Religions and Belief Systems Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-15-7648-5
• 1st edition 2021
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9789811576485
• ISBN-10: 9811576483
• Artikelnr.: 62667585

Rezensionen

"The book is a potentially fabulous teaching resource, especially for courses where religion is a relevant secondary variable. ... The thread of chapters that take up food and sustainability ... would make for an engaging module on religion, food, and sustainability. Scholars researching or teaching on the religious aspects of sustainability movements will find much on offer in this volume." (Evan Berry, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, March 2, 2023)