Lan T. Chu, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Kalzang Bhutia, Youssef Chouhoud

On the Significance of Religion in Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of religion in discussions about climate change, and the development of responses to climate change on global, state, institutional, and local levels. It interrogates the ways religion both acts and is acted upon by different actors, including institutions and nation states in response to climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040301098
• Artikelnr.: 72585173

Autorenporträt

Lan T. Chu is a Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College.

Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Occidental College.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia is a research associate in the Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book project at the University of Toronto and Princeton University.

Youssef Chouhoud is an Associate Professor of Political Science affiliated with the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Summary of Implications for Academics, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
across and between Religious and Secular Contexts 2. Why Religion Matters
for Responding to Climate Change: An Introduction 3.Relating to the Rising
Waters and Warming Land: Indigenous Religions and Climate Change 4.
(Doctrine, Praxis, and Public Opinion: Islam's Call for Environmental
Stewardship and the Varied Ways it is Answered (and Ignored) 5. Compassion
and Interdependence in the Age of Changing Climates: Buddhist
Understandings of Human-Environmental Relationships in the Anthropocene 6.
Concerned about Climate: The Catholic Church, Environmental Stewardship,
and the Challenge to Brazil's Bolsonaro 7. NOW WHAT? Implications for
Academics, Policy Makers, and Practitioners across and between Religious
and Secular Contexts