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Title Religion in environmental and climate change : suffering, values, lifestyles / edited by Dieter Gerten and Sigurd Bergmann
Published London ; New York : Continuum, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations
Contents Facing the human faces of climate change / Dieter Gerten and Sigurd Bergmann -- Global change and the need for new cosmologies / Wolfgang Lucht -- Religion in the public sphere: the social function of religion in the context of climate and development policy / Michael Reder -- Contemplating climategate: religion and the future of climate research / Timothy Leduc -- Climate justice from a Christian point of view: challenges for a new definition of wealth / Markus Vogt -- Climate justice and the intrinsic value of creation: the Christian understanding of creation and its holistic implications / Friedrich Lohmann -- Evangelicals and climate change / Michael Roberts -- Religious climate activism in the United States / Laurel Kearns -- Future of faith: climate change and the fate of religions / Martin Schönfeld -- Climate and cosmology: exploring Sakha belief and the local effects of unprecedented change in North-Eastern Siberia, Russia / Susan Crate -- Religious perspectives on climate change among Indigenous communities: questions and challenges for ethnological research / Lioba Rossbach de Olmos -- Vulnerable coastal regions: Indigenous people under climate change in Indonesia / Urte Undine Frömming and Christian Reichel -- Jaichylyk: harmonizing the will of nature and human needs / Gulnara Aitpaev -- Environment, climate and religion in ancient European history / Holger Sonnabend
Summary Climate change and other global environmental changes deserve attention by the the humanities - they are caused mainly by human attitudes and activities and feed back to human societies. Focussing on religion allows for analysis of various human modes of perception, action and thought in relation to global environmental change. On the one hand, religious organizations are aiming to become "greener"; on the other hand, some religious ideas and practices display fatalism towards impacts of climate change. What might be the fate of different religions in an ever-warming world? This book
Notes Proceedings of a symposium held Jan. 11-13, 2010 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
Global warming -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Sexuality & Gender Studies.
Ecology -- Religious aspects
Global warming -- Religious aspects
Umweltveränderung
Klimaänderung
Religion
Umweltveränderung.
Klimaänderung.
Religion.
Ökologische Bewegung.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Gerten, Dieter, editor.
Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956- editor.
Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung.
LC no. 2011017982
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