Religion, Sustainability, and Place
Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene
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,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Silvern, Steven E. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-981-1576-48-5
- EAN: 9789811576485
- Produktnummer: 37638290
- Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 412 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.2 cm 531 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 531
Über den 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.
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