Church, Cosmovision and the Environment

Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-40046-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies.

This volume contributes to scholarship on the intersections of religion with environmental conflict in a number of ways. Firstly, it provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy in places such as, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. It also considers the diversity of an often plural religious engagement with advocacy, including Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal perspectives alongside the effects of indigenous cosmological ideas. Finally, this book explores the specific religious sources of seemingly unlikely new alliances and novel articulations of rights, social justice, and ethics for the environmental concerns of Latin America.

The relationship between religion and environmental issues is an increasingly important topic in the conversations around ecology and climate change. This book is, therefore, a pertinent and topical work for any academic working in Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Latin American Studies.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment
Zusatzinfo	6 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-40046-7 / 1138400467
ISBN-13	978-1-138-40046-7 / 9781138400467
Zustand	Neuware