What is it about?
Offers a review of existing social science research about how the many diverse ways that religious belief, religious institutions, worldviews and faith communities are engaging with a changing climate.
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Why is it important?
This is the most comprehensive short review of the research out there. Little social science on religion and climate change exists, although many theologians, journalists and others have written about how religions are engaging with climate change.
Perspectives
Religion is one of the most significant social institutions around the world, and can serve as a cultural resource towards better ways of treating the local and global environment. Frankly, there is a tendency among many scholars and researchers to perceive of religion as less-than-relevant in the contemporary world, or consider it an irrational or archaic institution. This attitude flies in the face of all the data about the continuing (but chaning!) forms of religion and spirituality.
Dr Randolph Brent Haluza-DeLay
The King's University
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This page is a summary of: Religion and climate change: varieties in viewpoints and practices, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, January 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.268.
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