Church, Cosmovision and the Environment (eBook, ePUB)

Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America
Redaktion: Berry, Evan; Albro, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies. It provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy across the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351596114
• Artikelnr.: 56839763

Autorenporträt

Evan Berry is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University. He received his PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His book, Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism (2015), explores the religious underpinnings of the American environmental movement. Robert Albro is Research Associate Professor at American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. He received his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and has conducted ethnographic research and published widely on popular and indigenous politics along Bolivia's urban periphery. Much of this work is summarized in his book, Roosters at Midnight: Indigenous Signs and Stigma in Local Bolivian Politics (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Religion and Environmental Conflict in Latin America Part
1: Ecclesial Articulations of Environmental Rights and Justice 2 Church
Advocacy in Latin America: Integrating Environment in the Struggle for
Justice and Human Rights 3 Transnational Religious Advocacy Networks in
Latin America and Beyond 4 The Lausanne Movement, Holistic Mission and the
Introduction of Creation Care in Latin America and Argentina 5 Marina
Silva: A Brazilian Case Study in Religion, Politics and Human Rights Part
2: Cosmovision and Indigenous Expressions of Environmental Rights and
Justice 6 Bolivia's Indigenous Foreign Policy: Buen Vivir and Global
Climate Change Ethics 7 Relatives of the Living Forest: The Social Relation
to Nature Underlying Ecological Action in Amazonian Kichwa Communities 8
Trickster Ecology: Climate Change and Conservation Pluralism in Guatemala's
Maya Lowlands 9 The Winds of Oaxaca: Renewable Energy, Climate Change
Mitigation, and the Ethics of Transition 10 Articulating Indigenous
Ecologies: The Indigenous Pastoral in the Huasteca, Mexico 11 Religion and
Cosmovisions within Environmental Conflicts and the Challenge of
Ontological Openings