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Praying and campaigning with environmental Christians : green religion and the climate movement

Title
Praying and campaigning with environmental Christians : green religion and the climate movement / Maria Nita.
Author
Nita, Maria
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

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Description
xi, 261 pages : illustrations, charts; 22 cm
Summary
"This book presents an ethnographic study of environmental Christian networks involved in the climate and transition towns movements. Maria Nita examines the ways in which green Christians engage with their communities and networks, as well as other activist networks in the broader green movement. The book interrogates key categories in the field of religious studies which intersect activist concerns, including spirituality, community, and ritual. In this sociological exploration the author uses existing research tools, such as discourse analysis, and proposes new theoretical models for the investigation of network expansion, religious identity, and relationality through ritual. Nita examines the mechanisms underlying the greening of religion and thus offers an in-depth analysis of prayers, rituals, and religious practices, such as praying through painting, fasting for the planet, and sharing the green Eucharist in or with nature."
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Christian environmentalism: mapping the field of Green Christianity -- Methods for the investigation of Christian environmentalists networks -- Theoretical models for studying Christian environmental networks -- The Green Movement: climate and transition -- Christian environmental networks -- Profiling Green Christian activists: merging Green and faith identities -- Spiritual exercises and community building -- Green rituals: moving mountains and the Green Eucharist -- Relating to the planet: Green prayer and fasting for the planet -- Conclusions.
Call Number
JFD 16-5360
ISBN
  • 1137600349
  • 9781137600349
LCCN
2016942675
OCLC
939532208
Author
Nita, Maria, author.
Title
Praying and campaigning with environmental Christians : green religion and the climate movement / Maria Nita.
Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 16-5360
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